News Articles and Case Filings

Case Filings

http://jonesswanson.com/resources/#docs-sub-haas-shahbazi-et-al-v-navient-245

Amended Scheduling Order

Order Denying Navient’s Motion for Summary Judgement 

Timeline of Key Documents

https://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/866510/The-Navient-class-action-A-timeline-of-key-documents/

News Articles

MarketWatch:

This class-action lawsuit may offer hope for student loan borrowers in bankruptcy

4/8/17: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-class-action-lawsuit-may-offer-hope-for-student-loan-borrowers-in-bankruptcy-2017-04-07

New York Times:

Loans ‘Designed to Fail’: States Say Navient Preyed on Students
4/9/17: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/09/business/dealbook/states-say-navient-preyed-on-students.html?_r=0

In Navient Lawsuits, Unsettling Echoes of Past Lending Crisis
1/19/17: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/business/dealbook/navient-loans-lawsuit.html?action=click&contentCollection=DealBook&module=RelatedCoverage&region=EndOfArticle&pgtype=article

Voices of Navient’s Borrowers: ‘The Biggest Mistake of My Life’

4/5/17: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/09/business/dealbook/navient-student-loan-borrower-voices.html

Reuters:

Student Loan Borrowers, Herded into Debt, Face a Relentless Collector: the US
7/25/17: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-studentloans/

Bloomberg:

Student Debt Giant Navient to Borrowers: You’re on Your Own
4/3/17: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-03/student-debt-giant-navient-to-borrowers-you-re-on-your-own

Consumer Bankruptcy:

The Misinterpretation of 11 USC 523 (A)(8)

7/14: http://jonesswanson.com/wp-content/uploads/other/Austin-Smith-Consumer-Bankruptcy-Misinterpretation-of-11-U-S-C-Subsection-523-a8.pdf