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046055P.pdf   03/10/2005  Gail Osborne  v.  Cynthia Marie Stage
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  04-6055
   Eastern District of Missouri   
   Bankruptcy Appellate Panel - dischargeability under section 523(a)(6). 
   State court judgment for alienation of affections did not establish willful 
   and malicious injury for purposes of dischargeability of judgment under 
   11 U.S..C. sec. 523(a)(6). Abolishment of tort did not affect validity of 
   judgment. Elements of collateral estoppel do not apply because elements 
   of alienation of affection did not establish malicious injury. Grant of 
   summary judgment is reversed. [PUBLISHED] [Kressel, Author, with 
   Dreher and Mahoney, Bankruptcy Judges]