United States Ninth Circuit

In student borrowers' claims challenging loan servicer methods of calculating interest, assessing late fees and setting the repayment start date on their loans, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed where the statutes and regulations governing lenders and third-party loan servicers under the Federal Family Education Loan Program of the Higher Education Act preempted plaintiffs' claims.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/05/2009
• Decided 01/25/2010
• Published 01/25/2010

Judges

• Before RONALD M. GOULD and CARLOS T. BEA, Circuit Judges, and WILLIAM T. HART,District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William J. Genego (argued), Nasatir, Hirsch, Podberesky & Genego, Santa Monica, CA; Michael D. Braun, Braun Law Group, P.C., Los Angeles, CA; Andrew Friedman and Victoria Nugent, Cohen, Milstein, Sellers & Troll, Washington, D.C., for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• S. Dawn Scaniffe, Mark B. Stern and Sydney Foster (argued), Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the plaintiff-intervenor-appellee., Julia B. Strickland (argued), Lisa M. Simonetti, and David W. Moon, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellees.