Salazar v. King

GERARD E. LYNCH, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs-Appellants Ana Salazar, Marilyn Mercado, Ana Bernárdez, Jeannette Poole, Lisa Bryant, Cherryline Stevens, and Edna Villatoro, (“plaintiffs”) brought this class action against Defendant-Appel-lee Arne Duncan, in his official capacity as the Secretary of the United States Department of Education (“DOE”).1 Plaintiffs allege that federal student loans were fraudulently procured on their behalf when the Wilfred American Educational Corporation’s (“Wilfred”) for-profit beauty schools falsely certified that plaintiffs had an ability-to-benefit (“ATB”) from…