Student loan debt is famously just about impossible to have discharged, and Mark Jesperson recently became another person who has tried and failed to do so.
The 8th Circuit reversed lower court decisions that had allowed 45-year-old Jesperson to discharge $350,000 in student loan debt in bankruptcy, finding that he did not meet the extremely high "undue hardship" standard.
Elie Mystal over at Above the Law has a great analysis of this case and the larger issue at hand, which I encourage you to read, and can best summed up in Mystal's final thoughts:
Education might be the "silver bullet," for upward mobility in American society. But something is very wrong when the gun is trained on the very students seeking to better themselves.
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