Opinion
Nos. 95-5025, 95-5095, 31.
Argued: November 8, 1996.
Decided: March 21, 1997.
Elizabeth T. Bogren, Special Assistant Attorney General, New York City (Dennis C. Vacco, Attorney General, Barbara G. Billet, Solicitor General, Thomas D. Hughes, Assistant Solicitor General, of counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee.
Abraham Sokol, Scarsdale, NY, pro se.
Appellant State of New York appeals from the district court judgment affirming the bankruptcy court's decision holding nondischargeable the State's claim against Appellee Abraham Sokol for treble damages, but refusing to liquidate that claim. The State asserts error based on the courts' refusal to apply the doctrine of collateral estoppel and thereby resolve certain issues as a matter of law.
Before OAKES, LEVAL and PARKER, Circuit Judges.
Affirmed and remanded with instructions to lift the Bankruptcy Code stay.