Michael Faas v. Mary Scott

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UNPUBLISHED PER CURIAM OPINION filed. Originating case number: 5:12-cv-00383-F,AP: 10-00101-8-ATS,BK: 10-00794-8-SWH Copies to all parties and the district court/agency. [999328342].. [13-2181]

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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 13-2181

METROPOLITAN
HEALTH
CORPORATION,
Hospital; MICHAEL FAAS,

d/b/a

Metropolitan

Plaintiffs - Appellees,
v.
MARY TERESA SCOTT,
Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of North Carolina, at Raleigh.
James C. Fox, Senior
District Judge.
(5:12-cv-00383-F; 10-00101-8-ATS; 10-00794-8SWH)

Submitted:

March 31, 2014

Decided:

April 2, 2014

Before WILKINSON, KING, and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges.

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Joseph S. Dowdy, NELSON MULLINS RILEY & SCARBOROUGH, LLP,
Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellant. Edward L. Embree, III,
MOORE & VAN ALLEN, PLLC, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina;
Luis M. Lluberas, MOORE & VAN ALLEN, PLLC, Charlotte, North
Carolina, for Appellees.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:
Mary

Scott

sued

her

former

employer,

Metropolitan

Hospital Corp., and its CEO and President Michael Faas, alleging
retaliatory
(2012).

discharge

in

violation

of

31

U.S.C.

§

3730(h)

The district court for the Western District of Michigan

entered

summary

judgment

in

Metropolitan

$1,652,235.20

for

proceedings.

Scott filed a Chapter 7 petition; Metropolitan

filed

the

underlying

adversary

the

during

total

and

sanctioned

conduct

in

of

subsequently

her

Scott

favor

the

proceeding

amount

course

asserting

of

of

those

that

the

sanctions award in its favor was nondischargeable as a willful
and malicious injury under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(6) (2012).

The

bankruptcy court agreed with Metropolitan; the district court
affirmed.
We have reviewed the record included in this appeal,
as well as the parties’ briefs, and we find no reversible error.
Accordingly, we affirm the district court’s order affirming the
bankruptcy court’s orders awarding summary judgment in favor of
Metropolitan.

We dispense with oral argument because the facts

and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials
before

this

court

and

argument

would

not

aid

the

decisional

process.
AFFIRMED

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