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953913P.pdf   05/14/1997  Paul W. Geiger  v.  Margaret Kawaauhau
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  95-3913
   Eastern District of Missouri   
   Bankruptcy - Medical malpractice judgment was not for a willful and
   malicious injury by the debtor doctor and was dischargeable; judgment
   debt cannot be exempt from discharge unless it is based on an
   intentional tort; here evidence only established negligence.
  
953913P.pdf   08/14/1996  Paul W. Geiger  v.  Margaret Kawaauhau
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  95-3913
   Eastern District of Missouri   
   Challenge to bankruptcy court order refusing discharge of debt
   involving medical malpractice suit. Held: Medical malpractice
   debt is properly dischargeable where conduct was of a reckless,
   not malicious, nature. Reversed.