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Friday, October 26, 2018

Augustin v. U.S. Department of Education: Adventures in Fantasy Land

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In  April 2016, Pierre Augustin filed an adversary complaint in a Maryland bankruptcy court, seeking to discharge $210,000 in student loan ...
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Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Education Corporation of America files for receivership: Using lawyers' tricks to suck up more federal student-loan money

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Education Corporation of America (ECA), a for-profit college chain, filed a lawsuit a few days ago in an Alabama federal court. The lawsuit ...
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Thursday, October 18, 2018

Thomas Jefferson Law School won't admit new students next spring: Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for the legal profession

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Thomas Jefferson School of Law (TJ) announced it will not admit new students to enroll this spring. Why? Linda Keller , Thomas Jefferson...
Thursday, October 11, 2018

FedLoan Servicing is accused of fraud. What did the Department of Education know about how FedLoan treated student debtors in the PSLF program?

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As Alan White reported in  Credit Slip  yesterday, the U.S. Department of Education assigned the complex task of monitoring the Public Servi...
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Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Department of Education slow rolls the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program: Like a drunk weaving through traffic

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For many years, the Department of Education has managed the federal student-loan program like a drunk creeping through heavy traffic. It has...
Sunday, September 30, 2018

Sue Reagan v. Educational Credit Management Corporation: "A camel whose back is already broken"

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Sue Reagan is 60-years old and lives in a mobile home on rented land. She has a part-time job but lives near or below the poverty line. She ...
Monday, September 24, 2018

College students spend more time working than attending classes but they're still forced to take out student loans

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Many years ago, when I was a first-year law student at University of Texas, Professor Robert Hamilton, my law instructor, told our class of ...