OPINION

I. INTRODUCTION.

Kwang C. Choi and Myong S. Choi (“defendants”) filed a petition for relief under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code on October 9, 1990. Siemens Components, Inc. (“plaintiff”) commenced this adversary proceeding on January 14, 1991. The first amended complaint contains two claims for relief. The first claim for relief states that the defendants committed fraud by submitting a substantially misleading balance sheet and consolidated income statement to plaintiff, and that plaintiff justifiably relied on these financial statements. The second claim for relief incorporates the same allegations and seeks a declaration that the debt is nondischargeable under § 523(a)(2)(B) of the Bankruptcy Code. Plaintiff seeks compensatory damages in the amount of $153,000, punitive damages, and a judgment from this court that the debt is nondischargeable.

The court set a hearing to consider plaintiff’s demand for a jury trial on the fraud claim in light of the recent decision of In re Hooper, 112 B.R. 1009 (9th Cir. BAP 1990), which raised the issue. Having considered the argument, the court finds that the fraud claim is integrally related to the dis-chargeability claim and plaintiff is not entitled to a jury trial.

II. DISCUSSION.

A. Hooper Does Not State That a Plaintiff in a Dischargeability Action is Entitled to a Jury Trial on the Issues of Liability and Damages.

In Hooper , the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel held that a plaintiff in an adversary proceeding brought under § 523 is not entitled to a jury trial on the issue of dis-chargeability. Recognizing a split in authority, the court left open the question of whether a plaintiff may be entitled to a jury trial on the issue of damages:

Hooper, 112 B.R. at 1012-13 (footnotes omitted) (emphasis added). Thus, the Appellate Panel raised the issue now pending before the court, but did not answer it.

It is clear that a determination regarding dischargeability is within the exclusive jurisdiction of the bankruptcy court and is to be tried without a jury. “[A] bankruptcy discharge and questions concerning the dischargeability of certain debts, involve issues with an equitable history and for which there was no entitlement to a jury trial in the courts of England prior to the merger of law and equity.” Hooper, 112 B.R. at 1012 ; see also In re Hallahan, 936 F.2d 1496 , 1505 (7th Cir.1991); In re Schmid, 54 B.R. 520, 523 (Bankr.E.D.Pa.1985); In re Devitt, 126 B.R. 212, 215 (Bankr.D.Md.1991).

The plain meaning of § 523(a)(2) clearly requires that a bankruptcy judge be the finder of fact in dischargeability proceedings. Section 523(a)(2) also requires the judge to determine the amount of money obtained by the debtor through fraud because the debt is only nondischargeable to this extent.

These determinations are integrally related. As the Devitt court noted, “it is impossible to separate the determination of dis-chargeability function from the function of fixing the amount of the nondischargeable debt.” In re Devitt, 126 B.R. at 215 .

The U.S. Supreme Court has clarified that a legal dispute can be decided by a court sitting in equity:

Porter v. Warner Holding Co., 328 U.S. 395, 399 , 66 S.Ct. 1086, 1090 , 90 L.Ed. 1332 (1946) (emphasis added). The Supreme Court has also indicated that courts sitting in equity have broad powers to grant complete relief:

Alexander v. Hillman, 296 U.S. 222, 239 , 56 S.Ct. 204, 209-10 , 80 L.Ed. 192 (1935).

The Seventh Circuit recently considered this issue in In re Hallahan, 936 F.2d 1496 (7th Cir.1991). Under the facts of that case, the court determined that a defendant in a nondischargeability proceeding did not have a Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial. The debtor argued that the court should have submitted the issues of liability and damages to a jury after deciding the dischargeability issue. Id. at 1507. The Seventh Circuit disagreed:

Id. at 1508 (emphasis added) (quoting Alexander v. Hillman, 296 U.S. 222, 242 , 56 S.Ct. 204, 211 , 80 L.Ed. 192 (1935)); see also In re Devitt, 126 B.R. at 215 . In the interest of judicial economy, a plaintiff in a dischargeability action is not entitled to a jury trial on the integrally related issues of liability and damages.

C. Adjudication of All Issues By the Bankruptcy Court Does Not Infringe Upon Plaintiffs Right to a Jury Trial Under the Seventh Amendment.

In Granfinanciera, S.A. v. Nordberg, 492 U.S. 33 , 109 S.Ct. 2782 , 106 L.Ed.2d 26 (1989), the Supreme Court enunciated a test to determine whether a party has a Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial. Assuming that plaintiffs claim for relief for fraud meets the Granfinanciera test and results in a right to a jury trial under the Seventh Amendment, that right may nevertheless be lost when the plaintiff voluntarily submits to the equitable jurisdiction of the bankruptcy court.

In Langenkamp v. Culp, — U.S. —, 111 S.Ct. 330 , 112 L.Ed.2d 343 (1990), reh’g denied, — U.S. —, 111 S.Ct. 721 , 112 L.Ed.2d 709 (1991), the Supreme Court clarified its holding in Granfinanciera. In this decision, the Court held that a creditor which subjects itself to the bankruptcy court’s equitable power by filing a proof of claim, loses its right to a jury trial in actions that are “integral to the restructuring of the debtor-creditor relationship.” Langenkamp v. Culp, — U.S. at —, 111 S.Ct. at 331 .

This court has previously applied the reasoning of Langenkamp in In re Marshland Development, Inc., 129 B.R. 626 (Bankr.N.D.Cal.1991). Under the facts of Marshland, defendants who removed a state court action to bankruptcy court thereby invoked the court’s equity jurisdiction. The removed action was the “functional equivalent of a claims objection pro-ceeding_” Id. at 630 . Therefore, defendants lost their right to a jury trial in the removed action because claims resolution proceedings are “integral to the re structuring of the debtor-creditor relationship.” Id. at 631 .

In this case, plaintiff subjected itself to the equitable jurisdiction of the court when it filed its complaint seeking a determination of dischargeability. In dis-chargeability actions, it is debtors’ fresh start which is at stake. “[Sjuch issues concern whether the debtor will be granted the protection and benefits of bankruptcy.” Hooper , 112 B.R, at 1012. Accordingly, proceedings to determine the dischargeability of a debt are certainly integral to the restructuring of the debtor-creditor relationship. Id.

Filing a claim subjects a creditor to all the consequences that attach to an appearance in a court of equity. Granfinanciera, 492 U.S. at 59 n. 14, 109 S.Ct. at 2799 n. 14 (quoting Alexander v. Hillman, 296 U.S. at 241 , 56 S.Ct. at 210 ). A creditor which invokes the bankruptcy court’s jurisdiction seeking a declaration that a debt is nondischargeable has no stronger right to a jury trial than a creditor which files a claim. See In re Hallahan, 936 F.2d at 1505 (applying the same reasoning to determine that a debtor who files a bankruptcy petition loses all rights to a jury trial in any adversarial proceedings arising therein).

III. CONCLUSION.

There is no right to a jury trial on the issues of liability and damages in a dis-chargeability action brought under § 523(a)(2). The demand for a jury trial is therefore stricken.

. Unless otherwise indicated, all references to statutory provisions relate to Title 11 of the United States Code. . Hooper, 112 B.R. at 1012 -13 n. 3. . The court set forth a three-part test: first, the court must decide whether there would have been a right to a jury trial in Eighteenth-Century England; second, the court must decide whether the matter should be characterized as legal rather than equitable; and third, the court must decide whether the matter involves private rights, as opposed to public rights. Granfinanciera, 492 U.S. at 46 , 109 S.Ct. at 2792 . All three factors must be present in order for there to be a Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial.