He garnered some sympathy from two lower courts, but a three-judge appeals panel is not letting a Minnesota lawyer off the hook from repaying his massive student loan debt.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed a bankruptcy court and a district court and found that attorney Mark Allen Jesperson could not discharge more than $360,000 in student loan debt in a Chapter 7 proceeding.

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