PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:
A state court entered judgment upon a jury verdict awarding Bobby Springfield $341,000 in damages for defamation against Larry Gene McClendon. McClendon subsequently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Springfield filed a proceeding seeking to have the debt arising from the defamation judgment declared nondischargeable pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(6). The bankruptcy court found the defamation to have been a willful and malicious...
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