Legal Opinion
Ammons v. Edwards (In Re Edwards)
United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided August 29, 1997No. 19-11224PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DAVID A. SCHOLL, Chief Judge.
A. INTRODUCTION
The instant proceeding presents one narrow question: is a debt which arose from property damage to the vehicle of DAVID R. AMMONS and DEBORAH AMMONS (“the Plaintiffs”) as a result of the drunk driving of Co-Debtor MICHAEL T. EDWARDS (“Michael”) nondischargeable? Since property damage claims have been expressly excluded from 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(9) by a 1990 amendment of that Code section, the Plaintiffs are compelled to rely on 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(6) as a basis for nondischargeability.
We find that the 1990 amendments undermine the reasoning of…
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