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Department of Education Continues to be in Significant Breach of Borrower Defense Settlement
Frustration grows with the Department’s perpetual failure to deliver relief according to the dates it agreed to in the $6 billion settlement
Court Extends Student Loan Forgiveness Deadline As Borrowers Await Relief Under Settlement | Forbes
“Class Members are suffering serious, ongoing harm” due to the department’s failures, wrote the Project in its motion. Attorneys noted that borrowers were expecting to receive the settlement relief by January so that they could “pay for life necessities” such as healthcare or buying a car.
US Supreme Court Refuses To Halt $6 Billion Student Debt Settlement | BizReports
Eileen Connor, director of litigation at the Project on Predatory Student Lending, a group that represents borrowers involved in the settlement, stated that “the message is clear: the rights of student borrowers will not falter, even in the face of well-funded, overblown political attacks masquerading as legal argument.”
Supreme Court allows $6 billion in payments to continue in student loan relief case | FOX Business
"Today’s swift and decisive action from the highest court should end, once and for all, any ongoing debate about the legitimacy of this settlement," Eileen Connor, president and director of the Project on Predatory Student Lending (PPSL), said in a statement after the high court’s decision.
Supreme Court declines to block student loan settlement in fraud suit | Top Class Action
“Today’s swift and decisive action from the highest court should end, once and for all, any ongoing debate about the legitimacy of this settlement,” Project on Predatory Student Lending President and Director Eileen Connor told CNBC.
Supreme Court greenlights student loan forgiveness for defrauded borrowers. What's next? | USA Today
“The schools set their sails to catch political headwinds by falsely equating the settlement of long-standing and hard-fought litigation with a completely distinct program of broad-based debt cancellation that is currently under review by the Supreme Court,” said Eileen Connor, president and director of the Project on Predatory Student Lending, in a statement.
Supreme Court declined to block $6 billion student loan settlement. Here’s who qualifies for forgiveness. | CNBC
“Today’s swift and decisive action from the highest court should end, once and for all, any ongoing debate about the legitimacy of this settlement,” said Eileen Connor, president and director of the Project on Predatory Student Lending.
What the Supreme Court’s decision to let $6 billion in student-loan relief move forward means for borrowers | MarketWatch
Eileen Connor, president and director of the Project on Predatory Student Lending, which represents the borrowers in the case, called the Supreme Court’s decision “decisive and swift.”
Student Borrowers Win Another Victory in Sweet v. Cardona as Supreme Court Denies Intervenors’ SCOTUS Petition Attempting to Stop Settlement
The Supreme Court denied a petition filed by three intervening institutions—Lincoln Educational Services Corporation, American National University, and Everglades College, Inc.—asking SCOTUS to stay the $6 billion borrower defense settlement and seeking to bypass the standard appeals process.
Student Borrowers in Sweet v. Cardona Defend $6 Billion Borrower Defense Settlement in SCOTUS Brief
In the class-action lawsuit Sweet v. Cardona, borrowers filed a brief with the Supreme Court of the United States in response to a petition filed by three intervening institutions—Lincoln Educational Services Corporation, American National University, and Everglades College, Inc.—asking SCOTUS to stay the $6 billion borrower defense settlement and seeking to bypass the standard appeals process, which is set to begin in May in the Ninth Circuit.