Lawmakers ask Dept. of Ed to extend student loan discharge for Charlotte School of Law students
ABA Journal Daily News
ABA Journal Daily News
ABA Journal Daily News
Many borrowers use bankruptcy as a shield against a lender's foreclosure action. Some also try to use bankruptcy as a sword to bring up defenses that stem from the mortgage contract to defeat a foreclosure. Foreclosure News
Just last fall, we wrote about the Eleventh Circuit's decision in In re Failla, Case No. , in our article, “The Eleventh Circuit has spoken: Debtors who surrender property must get out of the creditor's way.” Foreclosure News
On December 14, 2016, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit affirmed the New Hampshire Bankruptcy Court and District Courts' findings that a mortgage lender sending Internal Revenue Service Form 1099-A to a debtor/homeowner post-Chapter 7 discharge does not violate the discharge injunction. In the case at issue, Bates v. Foreclosure News
ABA Journal Daily News
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday favored employees in a ruling on the time limit for contacting the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission about a constructive… ABA Journal Daily News
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday considered whether a federal judge who realizes jurors made an error in their judgment can recall them for additional… ABA Journal Daily News
After years of pro se legal battle and the pro bono help of a Brown Rudnick lawyer who took his case while it was pending… ABA Journal Daily News
A lawyer representing a Florida Coastal law grad with about $ 260,000 in federal student loan debt believes there is a good chance the U.S. Supreme… ABA Journal Daily News