DOE, Secretary Oppose Rehearing After 9th Circuit’s Loan Settlement Ruling

( May 12, 2025, 9:58 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A split Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel properly ruled that three for-profit universities failed to show that they had standing to challenge a final settlement approval based on 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, the DOE and Education Secretary Linda McMahon argue in response to a petition for rehearing en banc filed by one of the schools....