Where a state court judgment that affected a U.S. District Court’s subject-matter jurisdiction was vacated prior to appeal being heard, the district court judgment was modified to be on the merits. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a decision by U.S. District Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson, Southern District of Indiana. Scott Richardson incurred a school debt in 1988 after attending Indiana University. Richardson, however, never paid off the debt. Indiana University filed suit in state court in May …