ATLANTA — The 11th Circuit upheld a Georgia court’s refusal to discharge a judgment debt against a DeKalb County commissioner who petitioned for bankruptcy after a jury returned a $150,000 verdict against him for slander, battery and false imprisonment. He falsely accused two people of stealing his wallet at a bar and tried to have them arrested. Because the debt arose from the willful and malicious confinement of those individuals, who he taunted and cursed at, it is not dischargeable.
Read the ruling here.
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