Lawsuits & Amicus Briefs

AFT filed a groundbreaking consumer protection lawsuit against the Higher Education Loan Authority of the State of Missouri (MOHELA), the giant student loan servicing company under fire for mismanaging student loan accounts for millions of people. AFT is represented by the Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC), National Consumer Law Center...

On November 14, a coalition of non-profit organizations—including Student Borrower Protection Center; Community Legal Services of Philadelphia; Delaware Community Legal Aid Society; New Jersey Citizen Action; and New York Legal Assistance Group—filed an amicus brief to support the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) efforts to hold the National Collegiate Student...

Former students filed lawsuits against Top Applicant (also known as “Elevate”), a predatory online bootcamp, and Leif, a nationwide ISA provider. Alongside this, SBPC referred Leif to the CFPB. SBPC referred the ISA company to the CFPB.

47 former students sued Make School, Inc. an operator of a for-profit coding academy, and Vemo Education, Inc. the Income Share Agreement company, for jointly creating and offering a predatory, high-cost ISA to attend the academy.

In a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission, the Student Borrower Protection Center and the National Consumer Law Center urged the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Vemo Education, Inc. for unfair and deceptive business practices in its marketing and promotion of income share agreements (ISAs) for students.

Individuals representing a class of millions of student loan borrowers sued Great Lakes and the three national credit reporting agencies for unlawfully reporting borrowers’ student loan payments in violation of the CARES Act.

The lawsuit seeks to end unlawful wage garnishment by Secretary DeVos and the Trump Administration for hundreds of thousands of borrowers and to return the money illegally seized from these borrowers’ paychecks.