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083866P.pdf   09/08/2009  Ford Motor Credit Company  v.  Dennis L. Mierkowski
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  08-3866
   U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri   
   [PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Hansen and Bye, Circuit Judges]
   Civil case - Bankruptcy. In this Chapter 13 proceeding, the Bankruptcy
   Court erred in ruling that the debt attributable to the cash-sale price of
   debtors' new vehicle was secured, while the debt attributable to the
   negative equity in their trade-in was unsecured; under Missouri law, Ford
   has a purchase-money security interest in the negative-equity financing,
   and the entire debt was secured. Judge Bye, dissenting.