United States Second Circuit

Judgment barring debtors in bankruptcy from relitigating in bankruptcy court the fraudulent nature of debts owed to appellee, one of their creditors, is affirmed as debtors were afforded a fair opportunity to litigate the issue of fraud and because the state court necessarily decided the issue.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/20/2006
• Published 11/20/2006

Judges

• B.D. PARKER, JR., Circuit Judge:, Before: CABRANES and B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges, PRESKA, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Robert E. Sokolski, Esq., Sokolski & Zekaria., P.C., New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Ronald D. Weiss, P.C., Melville, NY, for Defendants-Appellants.