“This appeal demonstrates just how desperate these schools are to deny justice for borrowers, and we will not stop fighting until students get the relief they deserve,” said Eileen Connor, President and Director of the Project on Predatory Student Lending (the organization representing the borrowers) in a statement. “The court’s decision granting approval of this settlement is clear and unequivocal, and we are confident the [appeals court] will agree with [the district court judge] that these claims are without merit. As ever, we will continue to see this case through to the end.”

Eileen Connor, president of the Project on Predatory Student Lending, which initially filed the lawsuit, said in a statement that the court’s decision to approve the settlement was “clear and unequivocal.”

“This appeal demonstrates just how desperate these schools are to deny justice for borrowers, and we will not stop fighting until students get the relief they deserve,” said Eileen Connor, director of the Project on Predatory Student Lending, a group representing the borrowers.

Eileen Connor, president and director of the Project on Predatory Student Lending, one of the groups representing borrowers in the lawsuit, lambasted the three institutions Tuesday for planning to appeal the settlement.

The settlement will take effect if an appeal isn’t filed by Jan. 17, according to the Project on Predatory Student Lending, a group that represented borrowers in the class-action lawsuit.

“Within one year of the effective date of the settlement agreement—currently, January 17, 2023— class members will have their outstanding loans relating to these schools fully discharged,” according to the Project on Predatory Student Lending, the organization representing the class of borrowers. Some borrowers may also receive refunds of past payments as well as credit repair.