Sweet

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

THERESA SWEET, et al., Plaintiffs, No. C 19-03674 WHA

v.

MIGUEL CARDONA, et al., ORDER GRANTING FINAL

SETTLEMENT APPROVAL

Defendants.

15 16 INTRODUCTION The United States Secretary of Education has reached a settlement with a class of student-loan borrowers whose complaint alleges that, for years, the Department of Education unlawfully delayed processing, or perfunctorily denied, hundreds of thousands of “borrower- defense” applications — requests by students to discharge their loans in light of alleged wrongful acts and omissions of the schools they attended. The settlement leaps over the borrowers’ request to require administrative proceedings and provides for the automatic discharge of billions of dollars of student loans and streamlined claim processing. This settlement is separate and apart from President Biden’s broader program to forgive $430 billion in student debt. The key question now at final…