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May 05, 2023
9th Circ. Urged To Stop $6B Student Debt Cancellation
Three educational institutions named in a settlement that completely discharges about $6 billion in loans from 151 schools told the Ninth Circuit on Friday that the deal violated their due process rights and exceeded the authority of the U.S. Department of Education on an unprecedented scale.
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November 17, 2022
$6B Student Debt Cancellation Deal Wins Final Approval
A California federal judge on Wednesday gave his blessing to the U.S. Department of Education's plan to cancel $6 billion in loans for students who claimed they were defrauded by colleges they attended, calling the settlement a "bonanza" that the education secretary nonetheless has the authority to enter into.
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June 23, 2022
Biden Admin. To Cancel An Additional $6B In Student Debt
The U.S. Department of Education told a California federal court it will cancel $6 billion in loans for approximately 200,000 students claiming they were defrauded by a college they attended, weeks after announcing it would forgive $5.8 billion in debt for 560,000 former Corinthian College students.
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June 01, 2022
Biden Admin Cancels $5.8B In Debt For Corinthian Students
The U.S. Department of Education will forgive $5.8 billion in outstanding debt for thousands of former Corinthian College students, eradicating all remaining loans tied to the shuttered institution in what the agency said was the largest single loan discharge in its history.
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May 21, 2021
Alsup Cites Bill Clinton In Denying DeVos Bid To Dodge Depo
U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled Thursday that former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos must answer an "appropriately issued subpoena" from student borrowers seeking forgiveness from for-profit college loans, citing cases of former cabinet members and presidents including Bill Clinton who were compelled to testify despite objections.
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May 18, 2021
DeVos Wants To Ditch Deposition In Student Loan Relief Case
Former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told a California federal judge Tuesday that ordering her to be deposed by student borrowers seeking forgiveness from "predatory" for-profit college loans would fly in the face of 80 years of U.S. Supreme Court precedent protecting cabinet members from testifying about their "mental processes."
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October 20, 2020
Alsup Slams Dept. Of Education's Student Loan Relief Deal
U.S. District Judge William Alsup rejected a class settlement between the U.S. Department of Education and student borrowers seeking forgiveness from "predatory" for-profit college loans, after Education Secretary Betsy DeVos sent perfunctory denial letters he said undermine the proposed settlement and "hang borrowers out to dry."
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October 01, 2020
Defrauded Students Slam DOE's Loan Relief 'Blanket Denial'
Student loan borrowers defrauded by "predatory" for-profit colleges and seeking relief from crippling debt delivered heartfelt pleas to a California federal judge during a settlement fairness hearing Thursday, seeking assurance that a U.S. Department of Education deal with 170,000 borrowers ends its "smothering blanket denial" of long-awaited loan forgiveness requests.
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April 10, 2020
DeVos To Process 170K Bilked Students' Loan Relief Claims
The U.S. Department of Education will process a backlog of roughly 170,000 loan forgiveness applications within 18 months, agreeing to a proposed settlement on Friday with a certified class of student borrowers claiming the department failed to timely process their requests after "predatory" for-profit colleges defrauded them.
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October 31, 2019
Students Suing Dept. Of Education Over Loan Relief Win Cert.
Former students who say they were defrauded by now-defunct, for-profit colleges can take on the U.S. Department of Education as a class in a suit alleging the agency is slow-rolling their loan forgiveness applications, a California federal judge ruled Wednesday.