United States Second Circuit

A bankruptcy court's ruling that collateral estoppel based on findings in prior proceedings did not preclude relitigation of a non-dischargeability claim is affirmed where the previous court made no findings concerning the debtor's state of mind when he breached a fiduciary duty that would be relevant to the legal issues involved in creditor's claim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/06/2007
• Published 09/06/2007

Judges

• B.D. PARKER, JR., Circuit Judge:, Before:  CALABRESI and B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges, and LYNCH , District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kenneth L. Stein (Norman A. Senior & Jeffery H. Sheetz, of counsel), Greenfield Stein & Senior, LLP, New York, NY, for Appellant G. Hallett Denton.


• For Appellees:
  
• Anthony L. Tersigni, Meyers Tersigni Feldman & Gray, LLP, New York, N.Y. (Richard N. Gray, Meyers Tersigni Feldman & Gray, New York, NY;  M. Stuart Goldberg, White Plains, NY, on the brief), for Appellee Andrew A. Hyman.