"We are confident the facts will prevail and that relief for our clients is imminent,” said Eileen Connor, President and Director of the Project on Predatory Student Lending, the organization representing the class of student loan borrowers.

Alsup is set to take up the issue of granting a stay on February 15. Eileen Connor, president and director of the Project on Predatory Student Lending, which represents the borrowers in the case, said in a statement that "each day that justice is delayed means additional harm for borrowers and their families who have already been forced to wait years for a resolution.”

“We will not stop fighting until class members get the relief they deserve,” said the Project on Predatory Student Lending, the organization representing the student loan borrowers, in an earlier statement. “The District Court’s decision granting approval of this settlement is clear and unequivocal, and we are confident the Ninth Circuit will agree that the intervenors' claims are without merit. As ever, we will continue to see this case through to the end.”

"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,” Eileen Connor, director of the Project on Predatory Student Lending, said in a statement. “The court’s decision granting approval of this settlement is clear and unequivocal, and we are confident the 9th Circuit will agree with Judge Alsup that these claims are without merit.”

“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.