Legal Opinion
Bairstow v. Sullivan (In Re Sullivan)
United States Bankruptcy Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided July 23, 1996No. 13-15193PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JAMES F. QUEENAN, Jr., Bankruptcy Judge.
Before the court is the plaintiffs’ motion for partial summary judgment and the defendant’s objection thereto. At issue, among other things, is what conduct rises to the level of “willful and malicious” so as to render resulting debt nondischargeable pursuant to section 523(a)(6), and whether a state court judgment against a debtor, based at least in part on a theory of vicarious liability, has issue preclusion effect here. For reasons which follow, the plaintiffs’ motion is granted.
I. FACTS
The salient facts are not at issue. On November 3, 1989,…
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