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2nd Circuit says private student loans can be discharged in bankruptcy   Privately issued student loans may be discharged in bankruptcy, a federal appeals court has ruled. In its decision Thursday, a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at New York affirmed a bankruptcy court’s denial of Navient Solutions’ motion to dismiss a case brought by a borrower who argued his private educational loans were discharged in bankruptcy. The student loan servicer claimed that a provision in the U.S. Bankruptcy Code prevents a borrower from discharging “obligation[s] to repay fu...

Illinois bans practice of lying to minors during police interrogations   Image from Alexander Oganezov / Shutterstock.com Illinois is now the only state in the country that prohibits police from lying to minors during interrogations. Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law Thursday a measure that bans deceptive tactics, such as knowingly communicating false facts about evidence or promising leniency without authorization, when questioning individuals who are under the age of 18. The law, which takes effect Jan. 1, also states that any oral, written or sign language confession made under these ci...

Three BigLaw attorneys share stories about their TikTok personas     Cecillia Xie, Joanne Molinaro and Chukwufumnanya “Fumnanya” Ekhator have found popularity on TikTok. Screenshots from their TikTok accounts. Three BigLaw attorneys recently offered insight into their experiences with TikTok, a social media platform that allows users—there are more than 100 million in the United States—to create and share short videos. Joanne Molinaro, a partner at Foley & Lardner in Chicago, told Bloomberg Law she downloaded the app during the pandemic and initially posted videos about being a law...

ABA submits response to Florida Supreme Court’s ban on 'quotas' in CLE panels   Image from Shutterstock. The ABA on Thursday filed comments in response to the Florida Supreme Court’s recent decision to prohibit the approval of continuing legal education for any program with diversity “quotas.” In its brief, the ABA wrote that its Diversity & Inclusion CLE Policy is one of inclusion, not exclusion, and was designed to help engage diverse lawyers who historically may not have had opportunities to participate on CLE panels. “The policy does so without infringing on constitutionally p...

11th Circuit upholds CDC freeze on evictions due to COVID-19   Image from Shutterstock. A landlord’s inability to evict delinquent tenants during the COVID-19 pandemic does not constitute an irreparable injury, a federal appeals court has ruled. In its 2-1 opinion on Wednesday, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Atlanta said the landlords who brought the lawsuit failed to show that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s moratorium on evictions violated their constitutional rights, they had been deprived of access to their property or they would never recover unpaid rent...