Indiana University v. Canganelli

The plaintiff, Indiana University, filed suit in the circuit court of Cook County seeking a judgment for a student-loan debt owed to it by the defendant, Michael A. Canganelli. Canganelli had previously been discharged from all dischargeable debts by the United States Bankruptcy Court of the Northern District of Indiana. The student-loan debt owed to Indiana University was listed on his schedule of debts. Under the Bankruptcy Code, a student-loan debt is nondischargeable unless it can be shown that if the debt is not discharged it “will impose an undue hardship on the debtor and the debtor’s…