Debtor may compromise claims with its insurance companies to use the insurance proceeds to fund a trust for tort claimants. It is in the estate's and claimants' interest to have a single fund available, rather than engaging in piecemeal litigation.

The bank's purported "abandonment" of its security interest to another creditor did not assign or release its perfected security interest, so the trustee was obligated to turn proceeds and personal property over to the bank as the secured party.

Court retains jurisdiction over Chapter 9 cases until the plan of adjustment is successfully executed. Thus, it has jurisdiction to oversee city's assumption of SID obligations under the plan after the city's annexation of the SID

The creditors' committee's deposition of the holder of an alleged secured claim, whose offices were in Hong Kong, could go forward in Nebraska, where counsel for both parties were located and where the creditor did plenty of business with the debtor.

Debtor's amended preference complaint was sufficient to state a claim upon which relief could be granted. A previous order referred to the preference issue but did not decide its merits, so the law of the case doctrine didn't preclude the complaint.

In order to accommodate settlement agreements made between the debtor and various liability insurers, the court deferred the creditors' committee's motion to dissolve an injunction prohibiting personal injury litigation against the debtor.

The debtor's one-half share of an economic stimulus payment received by the debtor and his non-debtor spouse from the IRS under the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 was property of the bankruptcy estate and subject to administration by the trustee.

Because the debtor held himself out to the bank, and other entities he did business with, as sole owner of all personal property he pledged to the bank as collateral, his non-debtor spouse cannot belatedly claim an ownership interest in that property

The Secretary of Labor filed this minimum-wage lawsuit in federal district court. When a defendant filed bankruptcy, the lawsuit came to bankruptcy court. Because it involves an exercise of regulatory powers, it should be heard in district court.

A vendor of the debtor's products violated an injunction against litigation by pursuing an action against the debtor's insurer in a personal injury case and was held in contempt, with appropriate sanctions to be imposed after an evidentiary hearing.