Dominguez Ex Rel. Hamp v. Elias (In Re Elias)

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION RE PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

JIM D. PAPPAS, Chief Judge.

In this adversary proceeding, Plaintiff Scott Dominguez, acting through his conservator and legal guardian Jackie Hamp, requests that the Court determine that certain debts owed to him by Defendant Alan Elias are excepted from discharge in Defendant’s Chapter 7 bankruptcy case. Plaintiff alleges that the debts resulted from Defendant’s willful and malicious conduct in injuring him, and therefore, that his damage claims against Defendant are nondischargeable under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(6).

Plaintiff filed a…