The borrowers say they were defrauded by their colleges, but the class-action lawsuit to erase their federal student loans has been tangled up in courts for years.
The class-action lawsuit has spanned three presidential administrations and carried the names of three different education secretaries: from Sweet v. DeVos in 2019 to Sweet v. Cardona during the Biden administration, and now Sweet v. McMahon for Trump's current education secretary, Linda McMahon.
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Sweet vs. McMahon, a yearslong settlement over student-loan forgiveness for defrauded borrowers, is finally making progress.
Hundreds of thousands of student loan borrowers are eligible for debt cancellation under a $23 billion class-action settlement…
The Trump administration is wrongfully damaging the credit of millions of student loan borrowers, a new proposed class action…
A lawsuit has won billions of dollars for former students
The settlement would apply to an estimated more than 7.6 million borrowers enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education plan…
The settlement would apply to an estimated more than 7.6 million borrowers enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education plan…
