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

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.

<img src='https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/4794x3196+0+0/resize/4794x3196!/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F55%2F25%2F7f8557244423bf30d6e5935971be%2Fgettyimages-2280399027.jpg' alt='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's current education secretary, Linda McMahon.'/><p>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.</p><p>(Image credit: Oliver Contreras)</p><img src='https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=nx-s1-5910885' />