IN RE SICROFF

No. 03-15610.

401 F.3d 1101 (2005)

In re Seth E. SICROFF, Debtor, Stephen C. Jett, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Seth E. Sicroff, Defendant-Appellee, and Office of the United States Trustee, Trustee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Submission Withdrawn May 27, 2004.

Resubmitted February 9, 2005.

Filed March 23, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randall L. Wiens, Law Offices of Randall L. Wiens, Sacramento, CA, for the petitioner.

Daniel P. Whaley, Law Office of Daniel P. Whaley, Sacramento, CA, for the respondent.

Before: O'SCANNLAIN, SILER, and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.


O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge.

We must decide whether a debt was nondischargeable under the Bankruptcy Act as one for willful and malicious injury when it arose out of a published defamatory letter from a graduate student to the Chancellor of the University of California at Davis.

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Stephen C. Jett and Seth E. Sicroff were, respectively, a tenured professor and a graduate student in the Geography Department of the University of California at Davis....

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