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A major new court ruling paves the way for the Education Department to automatically discharge the student loans of roughly ...

A bankruptcy judge in Buffalo has wiped out the $56,299 debt of a woman who borrowed $16,900 25 years ago for an education she never completed. A bankruptcy judge in Buffalo has wiped out the $56,299 ...