Albarran v. New Form, Inc. (In Re Albarran)
United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Ninth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MARLAR, Bankruptcy Judge.
INTRODUCTION
The debtors, who reproduce and distribute motion picture titles in the home video market, filed a voluntary chapter 7 1 petition after a district court judgment for willful copyright infringement was entered against them for statutory damages plus interest, attorney’s fees and costs in the sum of $893,077.11. The judgment creditor then obtained a judgment, in bankruptcy court, that the debt was a nondis-chargeable “willful and malicious injury” pursuant to § 523(a)(6).
Debtors maintain that an award of statutory damages, without proof of any actual…
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