Bankrupt Md. company’s $4.7M debt for damages likely can’t be discharged, 4th Circuit says

A Savage-based supplier of packaging products likely cannot discharge through bankruptcy the $4.7 million in damages owed a competitor for intentional interference with contracts and tortious interference with business relations, a federal appeals court ruled last week. In its published decision, the 4^th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Cleary Packaging LLC’s actions if found on remand to have caused “willful and malicious injury” to Cantwell-Cleary Company Inc. would not be a dischargeable debt under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. “This fight is not over,” said Cleary Packaging’s attorney, Paul Sweeney. “We have options in the bankruptcy court that we are considering.”