The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals has turned away an appeal of a $28.1 million dollar judgment awarded to 6 plaintiffs (commonly referred to as the Beatrice Six) for damages imposed by a federal jury for a reckless investigation and manufacturing false evidence orchestrated by the Gage County Sheriff’s department. The plaintiffs spent two decades
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Can Gage County Discharge Intentional Wrongdoing in Bankruptcy?
By Sam Turco on
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Bankruptcy Code Section 523(a)(6): A discharge under section 727, 1141, 1228(a), 1228(b), or 1328(b) of this title does not discharge an individual debtor from any debt . . . for willful and malicious injury by the debtor to another entity or to the property of another entity.
A federal jury has awarded $28.1 million…