Monsanto Co. v. Trantham (In Re Trantham)

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the motive of a bank robber is to enrich himself, not to injure the bank; but, nonetheless, the bank robber has committed an intentional tort and it is substantially certain that injury will result
• discussing patent infringement as a form of intentional tort that falls within the scope of § 523(a)(6) under Geiger
• failure to pay licensing fees coupled with concealing identity to avoid detection and an admission of an intent to cause economic harm was suffi cient to find debt to be non-dischargeable under § 523(a)(6)
• “Federal common law governs the claim-preclusive effect of all federal court judgments.”
• treble damages nondischargeable under § 523(a)(6)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).