Court Opinion

ID: 9649290
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 14:47:36.708516+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T10:01:26.632419
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BRANDT, Bankruptcy Judge,
concurring.
We need go no further than Cohen v. de la Cruz, 523 U.S. 213, 118 S.Ct. 1212, 140 L.Ed.2d 341 (1998) (not cited by either party) to dispose of this appeal: the Supreme Court there construed “debt” in the 11 U.S.C. § 523(a) subsections rendering “debt ... for_” nondisehargeable to mean the entire debt arising from the specified conduct in state law. Subsections 523(a)(4) and (6) are so constructed; likewise § 523(a)(1), (8), (9), (12), (13), (16), and (17).
Appellants’ entire liability at state law is predicated on fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and willful and malicious injury; it therefore is nondisehargeable.