What is the standard for determining whether parties intended to injure each other?

Determination of parties' intent for purposes of 523(a)(6) is a question of fact. Factual findings are clearly erroneous if illogical, implausible or without support in the record. Retz v. Samson (In re Retz), 606 F.3d 1189, 1196 (9th Cir. 2010).

The clearly erroneous "standard plainly does not entitle a reviewing court to reverse the finding of the trier of fact simply because it is convinced that it would have decided the case differently." Anderson v. City of Bessemer City, N.C., 470 U.S. 564, 573 (1985). "If the [bankruptcy court's] account of the evidence is plausible in light of the record viewed in its

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