JUDGE DENIES PLAINTIFFS’ MOTIONS TO REMAND HUNSTEIN CASES BACK TO STATE COURT
- A District Court judge in Illinois has denied motions in two separate Hunstein cases seeking to remove cases back to state court, ruling that the plaintiffs have alleged to have suffered concrete harms and thus have standing to sue in federal court. Both cases were originally filed in state court, but were remanded to federal court at the defendants’ requests.
ECONOMIST CALLS ON FEDERAL GOV’T TO ‘STEP UP’ AND HELP THOSE ‘BURDENED’ WITH MEDICAL DEBT
- The author of a recently released study that estimated how much medical debt is being carried by individuals across the United States has published an op-ed that calls on state and federal governments to boost their protections of individuals from the “burden of medical debt.”
ED. DEPT. ANNOUNCES AUTOMATIC STUDENT LOAN CANCELLATION FOR DISABLED BORROWERS
- The Department of Education has announced that 323,000 individuals who have a total and permanent disability will have their unpaid student loans automatically discharged without having to file any paperwork or applications. The discharges will wipe out $5.8 billion in unpaid loans.
SENATORS ACCUSE CEO OF STUDENT LOAN SERVICER OF LYING IN CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY
- The Chief Executive of one of the nation’s largest student loan servicing companies is being accused of lying in testimony before Congress, as the company winds down its operations servicing student loans on behalf of the federal government.
READ EXPERT PERSPECTIVES ON TRENDING COMPLIANCE TOPICS
- Click here to read this week’s Compliance Digest. You’ll get insights and opinions from nine different compliance experts — David Schultz, Aylix Jensen, John Marees, Xerxes Martin, Carlos Ortiz, Jason Tompkins, Chris Morris, Virginia Bell Flynn and Chuck Dodge — discussing the impact of recent court cases and legislative updates. You’re not going to get that kind of varied perspective anywhere else. The Compliance Digest is sponsored by The Bedard Law Group.
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