Supreme Court Might Consider Ruling on Student Loan “Undue Hardship” Test
Under the Bankruptcy Code, a debtor cannot discharge student loan debt unless he can demonstrate that excluding that debt would impose an undue hardship. The test laid out by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the 1987 case of Brunner v. New York State Higher Education Services Corp (Brunner) has become the national standard in making that determination.…