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450k borrowers say they were ripped off. Their student loans are being erased

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The borrowers say they were defrauded by their colleges, but the class-action lawsuit to erase their federal student loans has been tangled up in courts for years.

The class-action lawsuit has spanned three presidential administrations and carried the names of three different education secretaries: from <em>Sweet v. DeVos</em> in 2019 to <em>Sweet v. Cardona</em> during the Biden administration, and now <em>Sweet v. McMahon</em> for Trump

The borrowers say they were defrauded by their colleges, but the class-action lawsuit to erase their federal student loans has been tangled up in courts for years.

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