Cases

Pallek et al. v. Rollins et al. On May 22, 2025, Student Defense, Protect Democracy, and the National Center for Law and Economic Justice, filed a lawsuit challenging a demand...

On March 24, 2025, advocacy organizations representing millions of educators, civil rights champions, school employees, students, and families filed a lawsuit to stop the Trump Administration’s illegal attempts to dismantle...

On February 7, 2025, Student Defense and Public Citizen Litigation Group filed a lawsuit on behalf of the University of California Student Association against the U.S. Department of Education (“Department”) for sharing...

On September 17, 2024, Student Defense filed a lawsuit against University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) for violating the D.C. Consumer Protection Procedures Act (CPPA) due to conduct related to...

On September 5, 2024, Student Defense, Upper Seven Law, and Chehardy Sherman Williams filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama against the U.S....

On June 12, 2024, Student Defense and DiCello Levitt LLP filed a lawsuit against Grand Canyon Education, Inc. (GCE) for orchestrating a deceitful racketeering scheme at Grand Canyon University (GCU). ...

On August 30, 2023, Student Defense filed a class action lawsuit against Saba University School of Medicine, a for-profit medical school headquartered in Massachusetts that operates on Saba Island in...

On July 20, 2023, Student Defense, along with co-counsel Altshuler Berzon LLP, filed a class action lawsuit against the California Institute of Technology and Simplilearn Americas, Inc., a for-profit online...

On December 20, 2022, Student Defense and Tycko & Zavareei LLP filed a lawsuit against the University of Southern California and 2U, Inc. for defrauding students by using misleading U.S....

On January 7, 2022 Student Defense and Relman Colfax PLLC filed a class action lawsuit in federal court alleging that Walden University engaged in fraudulent business practices, costing former students more than...

Fuller, et al. v. Bloom Institute of Technology, formerly d/b/a Lambda School, et al., 3:23-cv-01440-AGT (N.D. Cal.) Bloom Institute of Technology, formerly Lambda School, is a for-profit, unaccredited computer coding bootcamp...

On May 19, 2022, Student Defense, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyers’ Committee), and the National Consumer Law Center filed a lawsuit against U.S. Education Secretary Miguel...

On October 17, 2022, Student Defense and Latife Neu of Neu Law, PLLC filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education seeking a student loan discharge on behalf of...

Student Defense, the Project on Predatory Student Lending, and the National Consumer Law Center filed a lawsuit on April 25, 2022 against U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and the Department...

Since May 2021, Student Defense has filed multiple arbitration demands and one court case on behalf of former students against the online coding bootcamp Lambda School (now doing business as Bloom...

Student Defense filed a class action lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education and Secretary Betsy DeVos, demanding an immediate halt to the Department’s illegal garnishment of student borrowers’ wages....

Student Defense and Wandro & Associates, P.C. filed a class-action lawsuit in Polk County District Court on behalf of a class of current and former students of La’ James International...

Student Defense filed a landmark federal lawsuit targeting the illegal repeal of protections for students at for-profit and career college programs.

Former students of the Illinois Institute of Art and the Art Institute of Colorado sued Secretary Betsy DeVos and the Department of Education for illegally propping up two for-profit colleges....

Student Defense and the State of California sued the U.S. Department of Education to challenge unlawful regulations that removed federal oversight of online colleges.

Student Defense represented Rob Armour, an Illinois borrower who sued Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and the Department of Education for unlawfully denying him a loan discharge after his school...

Student Defense represented a Kansas woman who was sued in federal court by a for-profit college eleven days after she expressed her opinion about it online.

Student Defense obtained $63,000 in loan relief for a woman who was defrauded by a for-profit college.

Student Defense is representing the American Federation of Teachers in a lawsuit accusing Education Secretary Betsy DeVos of deliberately stymying public service workers from accessing a loan forgiveness program they...

Student Defense, on behalf of Housing and Economic Rights Advocates (HERA), filed a lawsuit on November 13, 2018 demanding that the Department of Education immediately fulfill its legal obligations and...