Student Loan Servicing Alliance v. Dist. of Columbia

PAUL L. FRIEDMAN, United States District Judge

This case involves the important question of whether the District of Columbia - and inferentially other states - may require student loan servicers who manage federally-owned and federally-guaranteed student loans to obtain a license to operate in the District of Columbia in an effort to protect the consumers of those loans. Plaintiff Student Loan Servicing Alliance ("SLSA") maintains that the District of Columbia may not regulate such servicers because Congress has preempted the field of regulating student loans servicers or has otherwise…