22 States Support College’s Rehearing Request After Ruling On Loan Settlement

( January 2, 2025, 8:38 AM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Ohio and 21 other states filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals supporting Everglades College Inc.’s petition for rehearing en banc that was filed after a split appellate panel ruled that three for-profit universities failed to show that they had standing to challenge a final settlement approval based on that their inclusion on a settlement exhibit in the class case over the U.S. Department of Education’s (DOE) alleged backlog of hundreds of thousands of unprocessed applications for borrower defense relief....