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Update | Delay. Delay. Delay. The Department of Education Appeals Preliminary Injunction Order and Moves to Stay Litigation Pending Appeal: What it Means and What Happens Next?
On May 25, 2018, a federal court in San Francisco granted former Corinthian borrowers’ motion for a preliminary injunction in Calvillo Manriquez v. DeVos, ordering the Department of Education to stop using its “average rulings rule” immediately, and to stop collecting the loans of certain Corinthian borrowers.
Update | Project on Predatory Student Lending Partners with Lawyers' Committee on Harvard Law Review Blog Post
Toby Merrill, Eileen Connor, and Josh Rovenger from the Project on Predatory Student Lending recently partnered with Brenda Shum and Genevieve Bonadies at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law on a blog post for the Harvard Law Review Blog.
Update | Department of Education’s Proposed New Borrower Defense Rule Enables Predatory For-Profit Colleges And Harms Students
Today, the Department of Education proposed a new borrower defense rule that strips away borrower rights, encourages the predatory behaviors of bad actors in higher education, and once again, benefits the for-profit college industry instead of students.
Update | Injunction Against Department of Education: What it Means and What Happens Next
On May 25, 2018, a federal court in San Francisco granted our motion for a preliminary injunction, ordering the Department of Education to stop using its “average rulings rule” immediately, and to stop collecting the loans of certain Corinthian borrowers.