United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Tennessee November 26, 1982, Bankruptcy No. 3-81-01192, Adv. No. 3-82-0155 (Tennessee, Department of Conservation v. Daugherty (In Re Daugherty))

MEMORANDUM

CLIVE W. BARE, Bankruptcy Judge.

This adversary proceeding involves the issue of whether a judgment representing a civil penalty for violations of the Tennessee Mineral Surface Mining Law of 1972, Tenn. Code Ann. § 59-8-201 et seq. (Supp.1982),

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is excepted by 11 U.S.C.A. § 523(a)(7) (1979) from a debtor’s discharge in bankruptcy.