The case, Sweet v DeVos, was filed on in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in the San Francisco Bay Area. The plaintiffs, represented by the Opportunity for the Predatory Pupil Credit at Harvard’s Legal Services Center along with Housing & Economic Rights Advocates(HERA), are suing on behalf of a class of more than 158,000 former students who have filed applications for borrower defense to repayment. As the complaint states, the Department of Education is intentionally ignoring students’ borrower defense claims, has taken no action to resolve them, and in many instances, forcibly collects loans in spite of the students’ claims that the loans are not valid.

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