UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 13-2181
METROPOLITAN HEALTH CORPORATION, d/b/a Metropolitan
Hospital; MICHAEL FAAS,
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; 10-00794-8-
SWH)
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Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.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Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
Mary Scott sued her former employer, Metropolitan
Hospital Corp., and its CEO and President Michael Faas, alleging
retaliatory discharge in violation of 31 U.S.C. § 3730(h)
(2012). The district court for the Western District of Michigan
entered summary judgment in favor of Metropolitan and
subsequently sanctioned Scott in the total amount of
$1,652,235.20 for her conduct during the course of those
proceedings. Scott filed a Chapter 7 petition; Metropolitan
filed the underlying adversary proceeding asserting 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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