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HANDSOME v. RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, ETC.

Civ. A. No. 78-143.

445 F.Supp. 1362 (1978)

Lynn A. HANDSOME, Plaintiff, v. RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, the STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

As Amended March 6, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Essex-Newark Legal Services by Jonathan I. Epstein, Newark, N. J., for plaintiff.

Pitney, Hardin & Kipp by John W. Bissell, Morristown, N. J., for defendant.

OPINION

STERN, District Judge.

This case presents the question whether a state university may withhold transcripts and deny registration to a former student whose student loans have been discharged in bankruptcy. Not unmindful of the widespread abuse of the bankruptcy laws on the part of students, this Court holds that such thinly-veiled coercion on the part of a state university to compel repayment of loans duly discharged under the federal bankruptcy laws...

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