Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Pignato v. American Trans Air, Inc.

512 U.S. 1205

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1994-06-13
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • holding that the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code’s duration and citizenship requirements for permits under Texas' comprehensive regulatory scheme for distribution and sale of alcoholic beverages constitute economic protectionism and violate the dormant commerce clause
  • recognizing in dicta that a director owes a fiduciary duty to the corporation and its shareholders for the purposes of section 523(a)(4)
  • debt under section 523(a)(4) confined to fiduciary relationships, such as that created by express trust, which are in existence before wrong committed
  • statute imposing trust on lottery ticket sales proceeds did not satisfy § 523(a)(4)
  • constructive, resulting, or implied trusts do not come within reach of § 523(a)(4); hence, lottery ticket seller not “fiduciary” within meaning of § 523(a)(4) so as to make debt from failure to turn over proceeds from ticket sales nondischargeable
  • lottery sales agent was not fiduciary because Section 523(a)(4
  • interpreting the FAA’s counterpart to Wis.Stat. § 788.10(l)(d)

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C. A. 7th Cir. Certiorari denied.