Garoutte v. Damax, Inc.

ENTRY ON BANKRUPTCY APPEAL

DAVID F. HAMILTON, Chief Judge.

A final judgment of an Indiana state court found that debtor Terry Lee Gar-outte had engaged in criminal conversion against creditor Damax, Inc. When Gar-outte sought bankruptcy protection, Chief Bankruptcy Judge Lorch granted summary judgment in favor of Damax, holding that the debt for criminal conversion is not dischargeable in bankruptcy because the state court’s judgment amounted to a conclusive finding that Garoutte had inflicted “willful and malicious injury ... to another entity or to the property of another entity.” In re…