Placer U.S., Inc. v. Dahlstrom (In Re Dahlstrom)

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• holding that punitive damages are nondischargeable under 523(a)(6) but listing a host of authorities and arguments raised by other courts against that proposition
• concluding, after analysis of Davenport and Johnson v. Home State Bank, — U.S. -, 111 S.Ct. 2150, 115 L.Ed.2d 66 (1991), that punitive damages are “debts” under the Bankruptcy Code
• “There is nothing in the language of § 523(a) or its legislative history to indicate that subsection (a)(7) was intended to preclude private entities from pursuing nondischargeability judgments of punitive damages under its other subsections.”
• “There is nothing in the language of § 523(a) or its legislative history to indicate that subsection (a)(7) was intended to preclude private entities from pursuing nondischargeability judgments of punitive damages under other subsections”.
• “[A]ll debts that arise from willful and malicious acts are nondischargeable”
• “There is nothing in the language of § 523(a) or its legislative history to indicate that subsection (a)(7) was intended to preclude private entities from pursuing nondischargeability judgments of punitive damages under its other subsections.”

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