Legal Opinion
In Re Seth E. Sicroff, Debtor, Stephen C. Jett v. Seth E. Sicroff, and Office of the United States Trustee, Trustee
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 23, 2005No. 03-15610PublishedCited by 65 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge.
We must decide whether a debt was nondischargeable under the Bankruptcy Act as one for willful and malicious injury when it arose out of a published defamatory letter from a graduate student to the Chancellor of the University of California at Davis.
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Stephen C. Jett and Seth E. Sicroff were, respectively, a tenured professor and a graduate student in the Geography Department of the University of California at Davis. When the university proposed closing the department, Sicroff sent a letter, dated April 17,1993, to the Chancellor and Deans of the university, with…
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