Legal Opinion
Educational Credit Management Corp. v. Stanley
District Court, N.D. Florida
Decided June 25, 2003No. 4:03 CV 17-RHPublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION ON APPEAL
HINKLE, District Judge.
The Bankruptcy Code precludes discharge of student loans except in cases of “undue hardship.” This is an appeal from an order of the Bankruptcy Court finding undue hardship and thus discharging ap-pellee’s student loans. I reverse.
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Appellee Gail L. Stanley attended Florida State University from 1991 to 1996, earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in speech therapy. She paid for her education — and other expenses — with student loans. At graduation, she was 44 years old. 1
Since graduating, Ms. Stanley has worked in four different speech therapy jobs,…
2Cases cited30 opinions
- Anderson v. City of Bessemer CitySupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- United States v. United States Gypsum Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1948
- Grogan v. GarnerSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Pullman-Standard v. SwintSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Local Loan Co. v. HuntSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
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3Cited by32 opinions
- Nys v. Educational Credit Management Corp. (In Re Nys)United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Ninth Circuit · 2004
- Roundtree-Crawley v. Educational Credit Management Corp. (In Re Crawley)United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 2011
- Burton v. Educational Credit Management Corp. (In Re Burton)United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Virginia · 2006
- Miller v. Sallie Mae, Inc. (In Re Miller)United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 2009
- Brown v. American Education Services, Inc. (In Re Brown)United States Bankruptcy Court, W.D. Missouri · 2010
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