U.S. EX REL. VIGIL v. NELNET, INC.

No. 10-1784.

639 F.3d 791 (2011)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Rudy VIGIL, Plaintiff Relator-Appellant, v. NELNET, INC.; JP Morgan Chase & Co.; Citigroup, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: May 5, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Clifton Johnson , argued, Jackson, MS, Scott H. Peters , Council Bluffs, IA, Tracy D. Rezvani and Rosalee Connell , Washington, DC, Timothy J. Matusheski , Hattiesburg, MS, J. Bradley Piggot , Jackson, MS, Rosemary M. Rivas , San Francisco, CA, on the brief, for appellant.

Daniel F. Kaplan , argued, Lincoln, NE, for appellee Nelnet.

Thomas J. Kenny , argued, Edward G. Warin , Paulk R. Gwilt , and Angela K. Wilson , on the brief, Omaha, NE, for appellee JP Morgan Chase & Co.

James R. McGuire , argued, San Francisco, CA, Dan Marmalefsky and Christina Chen , Los Angeles, CA, James P. Fitzgerald , Omaha, NE, on the brief, for appellee Citigroup, Inc.

Before LOKEN, ARNOLD, and BYE, Circuit Judges.


LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

The Federal Family Education Loan Program ("FFELP"), established under Part B of the Higher Education Act of 1965, 20 U.S.C. § 1071 et seq., consists of four programs administered by the U.S. Department of Education (DOEd) to provide various types of financial assistance that are paid to private lenders whose loans enable students to afford higher education—the Stafford Loan Program, the Supplemental Loans for Students Program...

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