192751P.pdf   02/09/2021  Derek Luebbert  v.  Global Control Systems, Inc.
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  19-2751
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Kobes, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Benton, Circuit 
   Judge] 
   Civil case - Bankruptcy. The facts underlying debtor's former employer's 
   judgment against him showed he caused a willful and malicious injury to 
   the employer, and the bankruptcy court did not err in concluding the 
   judgment debt was nondischargeable under 11 U.S.C. Sec. 523(a)(6); the 
   court takes this opportunity to clarify its law about exceptions to 
   discharge under Sec. 523(a)(6) and holds that a judgment for an 
   intentional tort is not necessary to find judgment debt for a breach of 
   contract nondischargeable; the willfulness requirement is met when the 
   bankruptcy court finds facts showing the debtor's conduct accompanying the 
   breach of contract amounted to an intentional tort against the creditor; 
   under Missouri law, debtor's actions here amounted to the intentional tort 
   of conversion.