Educational Loans from a Private Lender Are Held Dischargeable
Courts are split on whether all educational loans are nondischargeable as an educational benefit.
Functionally Illiterate, Disabled Debtor Succeeds in Discharging Student Loans
Why must the system require a trial to discharge student loans by a debtor in hopeless circumstances?
Judge Develops a Creative Remedy to Deal with Nondischargeable Student Loans
Remedies available to a bankruptcy judge are limited when granting a partial discharge of student loans.
Status Report on the Supreme Court
Already primed to rule on nonjudicial foreclosure, the Supreme Court might take cases involving contempt, the automatic stay and trademarks.
Being Employed Isn’t Enough to Salvage an Individual’s Chapter 11 Discharge
Appeals court talks about discharging a debt when the issue is denial of discharge.
Raising a Circuit Split, Ninth Circuit’s Taggart Opinion Heads for a ‘Cert’ Petition
BAP opinion shows that contempt is virtually impossible to prove in the Ninth Circuit following Taggart.