&gt; That the court order stems from a student loan debt is not beside the point.<p>It is entirely beside the point: he wasn&#x27;t arrested for an unpaid student debt, or even for an unpaid default judgement from a case he failed to respond to over a student debt, he was arrested for <i>failure to appear</i> when summoned to court.<p>That&#x27;s not being arrested for debt, student loan or otherwise.