United States Fifth Circuit

State student loan agency has 11th Amendment immunity from Chapter 7 adversary proceeding seeking to discharge student loan debts under Bankr. R. 7001(6) because an adversary proceeding to determine the dischargeability of a debt is a "suit" under the Eleventh Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/14/2001
• Published 11/14/2001

Judges

• CARL E. STEWART, Circuit Judge:, Before BARKSDALE and STEWART, Circuit Judges, and DUPLANTIER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charles R. Chesnutt, III, Dallas, TX, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Steven B. Flancher, Michigan Dept. of Atty. Gen., Lansing, MI, for Appellee.