Bass

MEMORANDUM DECISION AFTER TRIAL

On February 23 and 24, 2016, this court conducted a trial in the above adversary proceeding. While the plaintiffs were represented by counsel, the defendant represented himself. Plaintiffs Kim Bass, Kristy Graham and Jon Zimmerman (collectively, “Plaintiffs”) seek to deny Chapter 7 debtor and defendant Tony Tiscareno his Chapter 7 discharge, and obtain on their individual behalf non-dischargeable judgments primarily arising out of Tiscare-no’s conduct in the parties’ multi-faceted pre-petition litigation. The following constitutes this court’s findings of fact and conclusions of law under F.R.B.P. 7052.

This dispute, which has resulted in several years of District Court, Superior Court, and now Bankruptcy Court litigation, has its origins in a movie screenplay. Tiscareno is a general contractor/painter by trade and an aspiring screenplay writer at heart. None of his screenplays have been developed into a movie. In the 1990s, Tiscareno penned a screenplay entitled “FastGlass,” an action thriller involving “kit” airplanes. Tiscareno registered his initial draft of FastGlass with the United States Copyright office in 1998, and his attempts to produce…