Bankr. L. Rep. P 68,272 Gail Spilman v. Darryl M. Harley

U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit · Decided 1981-08-07

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CORNELIA G. KENNEDY, Circuit Judge. This case requires this Court to decide the yet unresolved issue whether a bankruptcy judge must consider every question of dis-chargeability of a debt de novo or whether the parties are collaterally estopped by a prior state court judgment determining the nature of the debt? Appellant is a judgment creditor of ap-p…

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