United States Eleventh Circuit

Graduate school stipends used for achieving diversity among instructors in state universities are for an "educational benefit" under 11 USC 523(a)(8) and are thus not dischargeable in bankruptcy.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/19/2001
• Published 03/19/2001

Judges

• ANDERSON, Chief Judge:, Before ANDERSON, Chief Judge, and BIRCH and BARKETT, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John Zingarelli, Decatur, AL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas L. Enright, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Louisiana Dept. of Justice, Baton Rouge, LA, for Defendant-Appellee.