Georgia Higher Education Assistance Corp. v. Broughton (In Re Broughton)

ORDER

SHOOB, District Judge.

I. BACKGROUND

Each of these consolidated bankruptcy appeals 1 presents the following question of law: whether this Court shall affirm or reverse the bankruptcy courts below, which strictly applied the letter of the law despite clear indications that the law did not reflect the intent of Congress. Specifically, Congress inadvertently failed to mesh the repeal of 20 U.S.C. § 1087-3, a provision which limited the dischargeability in bankruptcy of certain student loan debts, with the effective date of the replacement provision in the new Bankruptcy Code. 2 § 317 of the…