Cases

The lawsuit alleges the Department has for six years ignored its responsibility to issue a decision on a group borrower defense application submitted by the Massachusetts Attorney General in May 2016 on behalf of nearly 100 eligible former students of the now-defunct Kaplan Career Institute.

A student borrower in Illinois filed a proposed class action lawsuit against Navient for arbitrarily issuing blanket denials of student loan discharges where there is evidence of school misconduct and fraud. The lawsuit seeks relief for Illinois borrowers who applied for loan cancellation through Navient’s “School Misconduct Discharge Application,” which it quietly released in early 2024. 

Graduates of the University of Southern California’s (USC) online Master of Social Work (MSW) program filed a class action lawsuit against USC for misrepresentation, false advertising, and other deceptive, unfair and unlawful business practices.

California student borrowers filed a lawsuit alleging that the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority (MOHELA) failed to implement student loan discharges ordered by the Department of Education. 

PPSL and Public Citizen Litigation Group filed this case on behalf of New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG) against the Department of Education, challenging the Department’s 2019 borrower defense rule.

This case challenges the partial relief methodology for borrower defense introduced by the Department of Education in December 2019.

Challenges the Department of Education’s refusal to process borrower defense claims.

The lawsuit demanded that the Department of Education grant the AG’s borrower defense application and cancel the students’ fraudulent loans.

Class action by former ITT Tech students in ITT’s bankruptcy proceedings.

When presented with evidence of ITT’s fraud and the federal debt cancellation, Navient not only rejected Villalba’s efforts to seek private loan cancellation, it denied that he had any right to seek cancellation of his loan based on ITT’s fraud – even though the right to seek that process is stated in the student loan contract.