Retired Judge Kressel wrote the opinion in 2000 relied on by the Eighth Circuit.
A debtor with negative disposable income was forced to go through two trials and three appeals to discharge student loans.
Jan 2022
New York district judge requires a student loan debtor to prove the reasonableness of living expenses when the lender never objected.
Reversing the bankruptcy court, a district judge in New York held that a civil penalty wasn’t discharged even though the fraud wasn’t committed against the government.