Cases

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., CGC-23-605179 (Sup. Ct. Cal.) Bloom Institute of Technology, formerly Lambda School, is a for-profit, unaccredited computer...

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...

Student Defense is representing several groups of students harmed by the collapse of the Dream Center and its affiliated schools, and the subsequent receivership proceedings.

Student Defense is representing students who were misled by the Dream Center and the Illinois Institute of Art, accusing the the school of hiding the fact that it had lost...

UPDATE: On April 26, 2019, the District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that the Department had broken the law by refusing to implement the state authorization rules....

UPDATE: On April 10, 2020, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a unanimous decision affirming Student Defense's position, vacating the lower court's ruling, and remanding our case for further...

UPDATE: On June 27, 2019, the Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit ruled that student loan servicers can be held accountable under state consumer protection laws.

NSLDN filed a lawsuit against the Department of Education seeking all communications between the Department and student loan servicers regarding preemption. NSLDN is working with the group American Oversight in...

An association of student loan servicers challenged the District of Columbia’s right to pass laws that better protect residents against problematic student loan servicing practices. NSLDN, together with the Lawyers’ Committee for...