Legal Opinion
Fustolo v. Patriot Grp. LLC (In Re Fustolo)
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 16, 2018No. 17-1984PPublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.
Following trial on The Patriot Group, LLC's ("Patriot") adversary complaint requesting denial of the discharge in bankruptcy of Steven Fustolo's ("Fustolo") debt, the bankruptcy court allowed Patriot's motion to amend its pleadings and *80 denied Fustolo's discharge pursuant to the newly added claim. Fustolo seeks reprieve from his encumbrance, imploring us to reverse the bankruptcy court's judgment and remand the case for reconsideration in light of the issues pleaded in Patriot's complaint. Because we find that the allowance of this belated amendment fails to satisfy…
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