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Showing posts with label Roth v. ECMC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roth v. ECMC. Show all posts
Saturday, March 9, 2019

Misinformation: Some commentators inaccurately say that student loans cannot be discharged in bankruptcy

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Last month, Mises Institute , an Austrian think tank, posted an interesting article on the American student-loan crisis. For the most part, ...
Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Alexandra Acosta-Coniff v. ECMC: A single mother wins bankruptcy relief from student loans but sees victory snatched away on appeal

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In 2013, Alexandra Acosta-Conniff, an Alabama school teacher and single mother of two children, filed an adversary proceeding in an Alabama ...
Saturday, June 16, 2018

Are bankruptcy judges becoming more sympathetic toward student-loan debtors? Maybe but maybe not

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Katy Stech Ferek published an article in Wall Street Journal a few days ago in which she reported that bankruptcy judges are becoming more...
Thursday, November 9, 2017

Matt Taibbi's Rolling Stone article on student loans: Why don't distressed student borrowers file bankruptcy?

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Matt Taibbi wrote a terrific article for Rolling Stone about the student loan crisis. Titled "The Great College Loan Swindle" T...
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Friday, September 22, 2017

Student-Loan Debtors Desperately Need Bankruptcy Lawyers

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Too many Americans are going to court without lawyers. As Lauren Sudeall Lucas and Darcy Meals noted in an essay in The Conversation , 80 to...
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Thursday, March 9, 2017

Dear Secretary Betsy DeVos: Please do the right thing and allow distressed debtors to discharge their student loans in bankruptcy

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Dear Secretary DeVos: You have been Secretary of Education for about  a month, so you know the federal student loan program is in shambles...
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Sunday, February 5, 2017

Educational Credit Management Corporation is a bad actor: Rafael Pardo's article about ECMC's litigation misbehavior

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In recent blogs, I discussed two cases in which Educational Credit Management Corporation, the Department of Education's most ruthless s...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Betsy DeVos, Trump's choice for Secretary of Education, has the power to ease the suffering of student-loan debtors

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Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump's choice for Secretary of Education, has no experience in higher education, and that may be a good thing for s...
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Friday, October 28, 2016

Educational Credit Management Corporation and the U.S. Department of Education: Are They Co-Conspirators in Accounting Fraud?

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Last March, an Arizona bankruptcy court discharged $245,000 in student loan debt owed by   Rita Gail Edwards , a 56-year-old single woman ea...
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Friday, July 8, 2016

Message to Distressed Student-Loan Debtors: Don't Give Up! Change is In the Wind

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Don't give up 'cause you have friends Don't give up You're not the only one Don't give up No reason to be ashamed Don...
Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Alan Collinge is too pessimistic about bankruptcy relief for student-loan debtors: The Times May Be A-Changin'

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Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak ...
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