In the Matter of James Michael Zarzynski and Kathryn Kleist Zarzynski, Debtors-Appellants

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 1985-08-26

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CUDAHY, Circuit Judge, concurring: In view of the strong policy of excluding from discharge sums payable to a substantial extent by way of punishment, I am prepared to accept for present purposes the exceedingly elusive distinction between a “cost” or “expense" and a “loss." In most economic contexts, I would be most reluctant to pursue this distinction as it related to obligations to provide compensati…

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