Lamar v. Holder

How courts have described this case

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

• finding no willful injury by examining factors such as a decline in business, checks returned for insufficient funds, the inability of the company to pay its creditors, and no diversion of company funds for personal expenditures
• “mere failure to pay an obligation cannot be a willful and malicious injury in and of itself”
• mere failure to pay an obligation cannot be a willful and malicious injury in and of itself
• “mere failure to pay an obligation cannot be a willful and malicious injury in and of itself”
• \Implied malice may be demonstrated by the acts and conduct of the debtor in the context of the surrounding circumstances.\
• \Debtor acts with malice ... by intending or fully expecting to harm the economic interests of creditor.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).