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· 12/10/2008

Hernandez v. Greene (In Re Greene)

Citations

  • 397 B.R. 688
  • 2008 Bankr. LEXIS 3379
  • 2008 WL 5170621

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • recognizing that a debtor’s claim of self-defense could “provide[ ] justification or cause for [the debt- or’s] willful action”
  • finding that the debtor’s claim of self-defense in stabbing plaintiff amounts to an admission of willfulness
  • analyzing self-defense under both federal common law and state law where debtors entered guilty pleas in underlying criminal actions
  • finding injury where the debtor stabbed the plaintiff in the abdomen with a knife

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Allan L. Gropper

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