Cases

  • Dunn v. Cardona

    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.

  • Luna v. USC

    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.

  • NYLAG v. Cardona

    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.

  • Pratt v. Cardona

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

  • Roberson v. HCI

    Brought by four named plaintiffs on behalf of hundreds of HCI College students, the students’ lawsuit demands to have their loans canceled and payments refunded, and seeks an injunction to require HCI to allow all students to take the NCLEX exam so they may move on with their lives and careers.

  • Sweet v. Cardona

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

  • Vara v. Cardona

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

  • Villalba et al. v. ITT

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

  • Villalba v. Navient

    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.