LEWIS v. UNITED STATES OF EDUCATION
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today released an opinion in LEWIS v. UNITED STATES OF EDUCATION, No. 06-35255. The panel consisted of Betty B. Fletcher, Andrew J. Kleinfeld, and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges.
B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:
Appellant James Lewis seeks review of a final judgment issued by the United States District Court for the District of Idaho in favor of appellee United States Department of Education (”Department”). The bankruptcy court held and the district court affirmed that a congressional amendment to the law governing the dischargeability of a student loan obligation in bankruptcy may be retroactively applied to an obligation incurred prior to the date the law was changed. Whether the district court correctly ruled that the retroactive amendments . . .