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Law - "Bankruptcy Won't Discharge $350,000 of Student Loan Debt for Law Graduate"
The ILB mentioned the case of Mark Jesperson in an entry earlier this week on the high cost of traditional law school. Today Above the Law has an entry focusing on the bankruptcy law aspects of the case. It concludes:Big...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on July 17, 2009 10:33 AM
Law - Passes NY bar, but denied character and fitness approval because of amount of outstanding student loan
Or, as the headline in the NY Times story by Jonathan D. Glater reads, "Finding Debt a Bigger Hurdle Than Bar Exam." The lengthy story begins:All his life, Robert Bowman wanted to be a lawyer. He overcame a troubled childhood,...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on July 2, 2009 12:07 PM
Law - "Recession Imperils Loan Forgiveness Programs"
The NY Times has this story, by Jonathan D. Glater, on May 26th. A quote:From Kentucky to Iowa to California, loan forgiveness programs are on the chopping block. Typically founded by their states to help students pay for college, the...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on June 1, 2009 01:59 PM
Law - "Student Loan Bailout: The Choice of a New Generation"
The ILB has had a number of entries about student loans, including the impact of the 2005 bankruptcy law amendments, which eliminated the possibility of relief in bankruptcy for student loans in nearly all cases. See this June 10, 2007...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on May 13, 2009 12:31 PM
Law - "In Grim Job Market, Student Loans Are a Costly Burden "
The ILB has had a number of entries on student loans. Today the NY Times has this lengthy article by Tara Siegel Bernard. Some quotes:Perhaps seduced by the idea of graduating from a well-respected university, many students tend to overlook...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on April 18, 2009 01:28 PM
Ind. Courts - "Lawyers have loaded the Hammond federal court docket with lawsuits claiming debt collectors are working outside the law"
Dan Hinkel reports in a developing story on the NWI Times site, headed "As debt load rises, so do abuses." From the story:Sometimes, collectors aren't even bothering the right people, said Valparaiso consumer rights lawyer Michael McIlree. "This poor guy...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on March 14, 2009 11:44 AM
Law - More on "Loan repayment assistance programs progress"
Updating this ILB entry from March 27th, the AP is reporting, in a story with an Oklahoma slant, but one that I believe is applicable nationally:A federal law awaiting President Bush's signature will allow Oklahoma prosecutors and public defenders to...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on August 11, 2008 02:18 PM
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 2 today (and 26 NFP)
For publication opinions today (2): In Thelma M. Nornes v. Raymond M. Nornes , a 6-page opinion, Judge Kirsch writes:Thelma M. Nornes (“Wife”) appeals the trial court’s Decree of Dissolution claiming that the trial court abused its discretion in dividing...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on April 17, 2008 01:25 PM
Law - "Students pay; Sallie Mae pays off big"
The ILB has had a number of entries on Sallie Mae, the nationwide student loan scandals, and the crisis in student debt. Today the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette has an editorial about the impending $25 billion buyout of Sallie Mae,...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on August 12, 2007 08:09 AM
Law - More on the student loan program
The ILB has had a number of entries about student loans - here is a list. Sunday's NY Times special education supplement included several interesting stories. Joe Nocera, a Times business columnist, has this article titled "The Profit and the...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on July 30, 2007 11:38 AM
Law - Bankruptcy law amendments may have draconian impacts in student loan and subprime mortgage areas
Student loans. In June the ILB had two entries on student loan problems and the 2005 bankruptcy law amendments tie-in, which made the student debts nondischargeable: June 9th and June 10th. Home mortgages. Yesterday the NY Times had an editorial...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on July 15, 2007 03:21 PM
Ind. Law - "New law 'decriminalizes' some teen sex: 'Romeo and Juliet defense' may apply to couples"
Joe Gerrety of the Lafayette Journal & Courier writes today:For years in Indiana, the age at which a person could legally consent to have sex was 16. But lawyers for young defendants accused of having sex with 14- and 15-year-olds...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on July 8, 2007 01:04 PM
Ind. Law - Private Loans Deepen a Crisis in Student Debt; the bankruptcy law change tie-in
Updating a lengthy ILB entry from yesterday on the student loan scandal, the NY Times today has a long story on the private loan aspects. Some quotes from the story by Diana Jean Schemo:The regulations that the federal Education Department...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on June 10, 2007 12:23 PM
Ind. Law - "Student-loan practices at IU draw scrutiny"; bankruptcy law tie-in
The Louisville Courier Journal today is running a story by Maureen Groppe recounting New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's testimony to the Senate banking committee this week, and tying it back to Indiana universities. Some quotes:WASHINGTON — Raymond McKean said...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on June 9, 2007 09:14 AM
Law - "Lawyers Balance Public Service, School Loans"
NPR has a piece on Morning Edition yesterday about how the high cost of repaying student loans is making it difficult for young lawyers to become prosecutors or public defenders. The story has now been transcribed so that you now...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on January 20, 2007 09:05 AM
Ind. Decisions - 7th Circuit decides one Indiana case today
In Black, Joseph M. v. Educational Testing Management Corp. and Margaret Spellings, Sec. of Ed., a 13-page opinion (SD Ind., ), Circuit Judge Wood writes:The central issue in this case is whether a regulation promulgated by the Secretary of...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on August 16, 2006 04:14 PM
Law - A take on "The government may withhold Social Security benefits in order to collect old student loan debts"
Wednesday, as Linda Greenhouse reported yesterday in the NY Times:The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that the government may withhold Social Security benefits in order to collect old student loan debts. The decision gives the government an enhanced tool for...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on December 9, 2005 11:58 AM
Ind. Decisions - Court: College costs can't impoverish father
"Court: College costs can't impoverish father. Grad school payment order leaves divorced dad with $7,070 to live on, appeals panel says." That is the headline today to this Indianapolis Star story by Richard D. Walton on the Court of Appeals...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on March 23, 2005 10:05 AM
Indiana Decisions - 7th Circuit posts one today
Kort, Elizabeth v. Diversified Collection (ND Ill.)Before POSNER, MANION, and EVANS, Circuit Judges. MANION, Circuit Judge. Elizabeth Kort, representing a class of individuals, sued Diversified Collection Services (DCS), claiming that DCS violated the Fair Debt Collec- tion Practices Act (FDCPA),...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on January 10, 2005 09:56 AM