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1st Circuit

Nash v. Connecticut Student Loan Found. (04/26/06 - No. 05-2549)

Order denying discharge of education loans because of disability is affirmed where the plaintiff produced no evidence regarding her future inability to work.

5th Circuit

Int'l Interests, L.P. v. Hardy (04/26/06 - No. 04-21025) Questions of law are certified to the Supreme Court of Texas regarding: 1) choice of law issues in an action to recover a deficiency; and 2) proper application of the law governing calculation of the deficiency.

9th Circuit

Educ. Credit Mgmt. Corp. v. Nys (04/26/06 - No. 04-16007) A bankruptcy panel's reversal of a ruling against a creditor on her adversary complaint in bankruptcy court to have her student loans discharged is affirmed where the bankruptcy court erred in requiring the debtor to show exceptional circumstances beyond the inability to pay in the present and a likely inability to pay in the future.