We’ve previously written about Denise Megan Bronsdon, who graduated from the (unaccredited) Southern New England School of Law and then failed the bar three times. Not surprisingly, she had some difficulty finding gainful employment. Then she wound up in bankruptcy.
Bronsdon tried to get her $82,000 in student loans discharged in bankruptcy. A bankruptcy judge ruled in her favor, finding that having to repay the (normally non-dischargeable) student debt would constitute “undue hardship.”
But then a district judge, on an appeal brought by her lender, vacated and remanded. Chief Judge Mark Wolf (D. Mass.) concluded that the bankruptcy judge erred by failing to consider, in the “undue hardship” analysis, the fact that Bronsdon was eligible for a debtor-repayment plan available to law school graduates.
On remand, Bankruptcy Judge Joel Rosenthal — who’s about to retire, by the way — stuck it to the district court. Judge Rosenthal reached the exact same result as before (and snarked on Judge Wolf in doing so).
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