Lake v. Capps (In Re Lake)
United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Ninth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RUSSELL, Bankruptcy Judge:
Several judgment creditors filed a complaint to determine that their state court default judgment for fraud and another alleged debt were nondischargeable pursuant to §§ 523(a)(2)(A), (B) and (a)(6) 2 . The bankruptcy court gave collateral estoppel effect to the state court judgment and held that the compensatory damages portion of the judgment was nondischargeable, but that the state court record did not support a finding that the punitive damages and attorneys’ fees were nondischargeable. After a trial, the bankruptcy court concluded that the plaintiffs’…
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