Split 9th Circuit Rules On Schools’ Standing To Challenge Loan Settlement

( November 14, 2024, 11:34 AM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Three for-profit universities that alleged that their inclusion on a settlement exhibit in a class case over the U.S. Department of Education’s (DOE) alleged backlog of hundreds of thousands of unprocessed applications for borrower defense relief damaged their reputation showed that they had standing under Article III of the U.S. Constitution but lacked prudential standing to challenge final settlement approval, a split Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled....