163182P.pdf   08/22/2017  State of Missouri, etc.  v.  Michael Spencer
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  16-3182
                          and No:  16-3183
   Appeal from the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Eighth Circuit   
   [PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Wollman, Circuit Judge, and Nelson, 
   District Judge] 
   Civil case - Bankruptcy. The BAP correctly ruled that the disallowed 
   portion of the Missouri Department of Social Services' domestic support 
   obligation was not subject to the discharge injunction imposed when the 
   bankruptcy court granted the debtors a discharge;that ruling eliminated 
   the basis for the bankruptcy court's sanction order against the 
   Department, and the BAP did not err in reversing the bankruptcy court's 
   contempt order sanctions; the court would not issue an advisory opinion on 
   the cross-appeal issue in which the Department asks the court to address 
   the merits of whether the disallowed potion of its amended domestic 
   support order claim survived the bankruptcy court's contrary ruling, its 
   confirmation of the Chapter 13 plan and the debtors' discharge.