Novartis Corp. v. Luppino (In Re Luppino)

How courts have described this case

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• holding that debtor’s actions were not willful where “there was a creditor which [the debtor] chose to pay first and thought that it was in [his] financial interest to do so”
• holding that commercial bribery and breach of fiduciary duty lacked requisite malice
• holding that management level employee responsible for evaluating contractor bids and against whom a state court judgment was obtained for breach of fiduciary duty of loyalty and commercial bribery was not acting in a fiduciary capacity within meaning of § 523(a)(4)
• stating “the test for non-dischargeability under Section 523(a)(6) is not greed or the gravity of misconduct, but actual malice”
• stating “the test for non-dischargeability under Section 523(a)(6) is not greed or the gravity of misconduct, but actual malice”
• management level employee did not act in a fiduciary capacity

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