Re:Chinese Companies Are Buying Up Cash-Strapped U.S. Colleges
by lovich on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @09:05AM
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This would be an ex post facto change. The government wouldn't be retroactively making the lenders guilty, it'd be a change in regulations. If this change was unconstitutional then you'd have situations like a company with a contract to dump industrial waste into a river going "oh sorry, I made this contract based on the regulations back then, so it's unconstitutional for you to make me stop polluting"
Re:Chinese Companies Are Buying Up Cash-Strapped U.S. Colleges
by jjeaff on Sunday March 25, 2018 @01:20AM
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If you had a contract that was contingent on your ability to dump your waste in the river, and then a law was passed forbidding the dumping of waste, you would of course have to stop polluting, but your contract would be null and void as well.
Non-bankruptable student loans aren't "regulations" they are specific contracts between students, lenders, and the US government.
https://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A1Sec9.html