IN RE DOCTEROFF

No. 97-5095.

133 F.3d 210 (1997)

In re Norman DOCTEROFF, Debtor, Bert L. WOLSTEIN; Lady Iris Corporation v. Norman DOCTEROFF, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided December 30, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce Buechler, Ravin, Sarasohn, Cook, Baumgarten, Fisch & Baime, Roseland, NJ, for Appellant.

Bruce S. Etterman, Hellring, Lindeman, Golstein & Siegal, Newark, NJ, for Appellees.

Before: COWEN, McKEE, and ROSENN, Circuit Judges.


Submitted Under Third Circuit LAR 34.1(a) December 2, 1997.

OPINION OF THE COURT

ROSENN, Circuit Judge.

In this case, we must decide whether a default judgment entered against a defendant in a fraud action as a sanction for the defendant's repeated and bad-faith refusals to comply with discovery requests collaterally estops the defendant from claiming that the debt underlying the judgment is dischargeable...

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