Does the statute of limitations apply to a creditor who is unable to claim a nondischargeability action for fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and willful and malicious injury?

In Banks v. Gill Distribution Centers, Inc. (In re Banks), 263 F.3d 862, 868 (9th Cir. 2001), the court held that where a creditor filed a timely state court claim for breach of a settlement agreement - even where the claim had not been reduced to judgment - the creditor was not barred from asserting in the bankruptcy court a timely nondischargeability action for fraud,

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breach of fiduciary duty, and willful and malicious injury, even though the state statutes of limitations had expired. See also Lee-Benner v. Gergely (In re Gergely), 110 F.3d 1448, 1454 (9th Cir. 1997) ("The state limitations period for fraud actions is irrelevant to the dischargeability of an established debt.")