TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Oct 3, 2022

Six Republican-led states — Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and South Carolina — filed suit last week in a Missouri federal court for an immediate temporary restraining order against the Biden Administration’s student debt relief program. The state of Arizona filed a separate lawsuit, Axios reports. On the same day, a federal judge in Indiana denied lawyer Frank Garrison’s request to pause the loan forgiveness plan saying Garrison could not be irreparably harmed by the plan. Also last week, the U.S. Department of Education changed its guidance about one element of the loan forgiveness plan, saying it no longer will allow Federal Family Education loan (FFEL) borrowers to consolidate their loans and quality for debt relief. Reuters has the story on that development.