Greene v. United States Department of Education

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This appeal requires us to decide what is needed to make a counterclaim compulsory. The plaintiff, Frederick Greene, appeals from a judgment directing him to repay his student loan debt to the federal Department of Education. The judgment is based on a counterclaim filed by the Department to Greene’s complaint, which sought to enjoin the Department from collecting his student debt by garnishment of his wages or any other measure. The judge ruled that the Department’s counterclaim seeking a judgment ordering Greene to repay the debt was not barred, either as a compulsory…