Legal Opinion
Carr v. DeVos
District Court, S.D. Illinois
Decided February 25, 2019No. 17 Civ. 8790 (KPF)PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KATHERINE POLK FAILLA, District Judge:
Plaintiffs Tina Carr and Yvette Colon (together, "Plaintiffs") took out significant student loans in order to attend the Sanford-Brown Institute ("SBI"), a for-profit educational institution that, it is alleged, misrepresented the job opportunities that SBI students could achieve. After completing their respective courses of study, each Plaintiff found her SBI education to be effectively worthless. In consequence, each Plaintiff sought to invoke the "borrower defense," pursuant to which students who rely on the misrepresentations of an educational…
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