Kelly v. Okoye (In Re Kelly)
United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Ninth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RUSSELL, Bankruptcy Judge:
This appeal arises from the partial granting of a motion for summary judgment declaring a state court judgment for legal malpractice to be nondischargeable pursuant to § 523(a)(6) 1 . The debtor appeals. We REVERSE and REMAND.
I. FACTS 2
The appellee, Chris Okoye (“Okoye”) was terminated from his employment as a senior accountant in Los Angeles, California. Ok-oye retained George Abbott (“Abbott”), an attorney licensed in Nevada to represent him in a wrongful termination suit against Ok-oye’s employer, Transaction Technology, Inc. (“Tti”) and its parent company,…
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