[Ann Archy]

hahahaha!!! what an IDIOT!!

[pnh102]

Pay up fool.

People like this are the reason student loans are exempted from being discharged through bankruptcy.

[Sacajaweau]

Apparently, the guy didn’t learn anything in attorney school.

[devane617]

How the heck can someone be allowed to build 360k in student-load debt? Stupid on the part of the lender, just like in the housing crisis. However, I suspect if we dig below the surface we will find the hand of gov was involved.

[martinidon]

how do you amass $360,000 in student loans and only be an attorney?

[ohhhh]

There is still some sanity in the corrupted judicial system. We live in a country where people expect the government to provide for their needs and that is evil and will economically bankrupt our morally bankrupt nation.
This is the result of ungodly people who refuse to acknowledge the God of Scripture, even Jesus Christ our Lord, as the way, the TRUTH, and the life.
America is as dead as true conservatism for rejecting the Witness of God the Father through His only begotten Son Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour.
Jesus the Lord is our provider, but the rest will labor all day for a handful a bread during the coming 7 year tribulation caused by the unbelief of those who hate the testimony of God.
SOLA SCRIPTURA.

[DJ MacWoW]

According to the ruling, he worked as a judicial clerk on the island of Saipan after graduation, then as an attorney with Alaska Legal Services and later as a legal temporary worker with Kelly Services.

"He quit each job for a variety of personal reasons," the decision said. ECMC v. Jesperson, No. 07-3888.

I guess lazy and stupid are personal reasons.

[tsmith130]

How the hell did he amass over $350,000 in law school bills?!

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Jesperson, a 2000 graduate of Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Ore., ...

Gee, isn't Monica Lewinsky an alumna of Lewis and Clark?

... had amassed $363,218 in student loan principal, interest and collection costs when he filed for bankruptcy in 2005.

It sounds to me as if Jesperson took out loans with no intention of repaying them four all four years of college and both years of law school. We need to put an end to people running up huge debts with the intention of filing bankruptcy.

[DannyTN]

I have mixed feelings here.

Our founding fathers put bankruptcy protections in place to prevent economic slavery from creditors. The fact that it was our government lent this idiot $360,000 (It's not clear how much the original loan principal was) is a fault of the government's lending practices as much as this idiot.

$48,000 is not an unreasonable salary for most people. It may be low for an attorney, but it seems to me there is a glut of attorneys or maybe just a glut of legal processes.

It's made worse by the fact that he probably has a ridiculous child support obligation. And that child support obligation is made worse by the court's refusals to give Dad's equal time with their kids, simultaneously taking away their kids while increasing the amount of Child Support since they have less time.

If you think income tax is a demotivator, imagine that both the taxman and your ex are going to take their shares of any increases you make, and any increases you make are likely to lock in your payment to your ex at a higher level, because the divorce courts are less understanding than the IRS when your income goes down.

I think

• the court should honor our founding father's wishes, let him discharge the debt, and get on with his life.
• Government should revisit their lending practices and why this loser was loaned this much in the first place and
• Gov't should allow school loans to be discharged, they shouldn't have special creditor status just because they are the gov't
• Child support should be capped, except for medical expenses, not ever increasing as parents incomes go up
• adopt the presumption of equal custody laws and take some of the fight out of divorces and the burden off of Dad's.
• make it easier to adjust child support downward in cases of layoffs, recessions, etc.

[blau993]

This guy went to a third rate law school, probably didn't finish very high in his class, and then, lo and behold, had trouble finding a real job that paid any money.

His $360,000 in debt had to have included undergrad costs as well as law school, plus a lot of penalties and interest. He has probably never paid dime one on any of his loans.

The whining little POS obviously believes he is entitled to a free ride. Fortunately, the Eighth Circuit had the guts to slap him in the face and, maybe, just maybe, make a man out him.