Predatory Lending and Consumer Protection Clinic

Source: Pexels By: Casey McTiernan Students Won Several Major Victories This Month Against the Department of Education. After years of delay by the Department of Education,…

Via The New York Times    Source: Flickr.com By: Stacy Cowley A long-delayed federal rule intended to protect student loan borrowers who were…

Via Courthouse News Service Source: Flickr.com  By: Nicholas Iovino More than 100,000 students defrauded by Corinthian Colleges can team up to sue Education…

Via MarketWatch 
Source: Flickr.com  By: Jillian Berman Several states are throwing their support behind scammed student-loan borrowers hoping for relief. Led by…

Via the Legal Services Center Source: Pixabay Meaghan Bauer and Stephen Del Rose, former students of EDMC-owned New England Institute of Art, were cheated…

Via the Center for American Progress By: Sara Garcia Under the leadership of Secretary Betsy DeVos, the U.S. Department of Education has sought to…

Via NPR By: Elissa Nadworny and Anya Kamenetz Source: Flickr.com A federal judge ruled this week that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ delay of…

Via Project on Predatory Student Lending—For-profit colleges have exploited the promise of higher education by deceiving tens of thousands of students seeking a better life. One of the groups the for-profit industry has particularly targeted are veterans and servicemembers.

From Legal Services Center—The U.S. Department of Education broke the law when it announced a delay of a rule designed to protect students defrauded by predatory for-profit colleges and career training programs, two borrowers said in a lawsuit filed today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

From the Legal Services Center

From the Project on Predatory Student—Lending ITT used unfair and deceptive tactics to get students to sign up for Temporary Credits, including by describing Temporary Credits as grants and threatening to expel students if they did not agree to the debt.

From The Washington Post—The Project on Predatory Student Lending at Harvard Law School is suing the Justice Department for withholding documents that could help for-profit college students get their federal education loans canceled.

The Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs extends a warm welcome to Yan Cao (Attorney and Fellow) of the Project on Predatory Student Lending, Mason…

Via the Washington Post  Creditors, federal regulators, state attorneys general and jilted employees of ITT Educational Services have laid claim to the remaining assets…

Via Legal Services Center A former student of Everest Institute filed a lawsuit yesterday in federal court to challenge the government’s continued collection of…

Via Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court in New York revived a lawsuit seeking to stop the government from collecting on…

By Jessica Ranucci, J.D. ’16  Jessica Ranucci, J.D. ’16 The Project on Predatory Student Lending, part of the Predatory Lending and Consumer Protection Clinic,…

Via Legal Services Center (LSC) Two alumni of the Project on Predatory Student Lending testified to the…

Via the Legal Services Center  LSC’s Project on Predatory Student Lending, along with the National Consumer Law Center’s Student Loan Borrower Assistance…

Via the Legal Services Center  The Project on Predatory Student Lending recently helped save a client over $44,000.  A problem in his federal…