May 28, 2004

Government News In Brief

SUPREME COURT: State-backed student loans can be canceled by federal bankruptcy courts without endangering state sovereignty, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week. In a 7-to-2 decision, the justices sided with Pamela L. Hood, who had sued the Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation after a federal bankruptcy court refused to cancel the $4,169 in state-backed education loans that she received from 1988 to 1990. The case now returns to federal bankruptcy court, which will determine whether

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