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Read previewLawsuits to block some of President Joe Biden's targeted student-debt relief efforts are simmering — and a court ruling might have signaled how one case will fare.
"Plaintiffs have not alleged that any of their employees have stopped seeking PSLF forgiveness because of the adjustment," the court's decision said.
In March, 11 GOP state attorneys general filed a lawsuit to block the SAVE income-driven repayment plan, which the Education Department implemented last summer to give borrowers more affordable monthly payments.
Economic assumptions alone were not enough for the Sixth Circuit, nor, for that matter, for the Supreme Court," the Education Department wrote in its legal filing.
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—, Joe Biden's, Circuit wasn't
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Service, New Civil Liberties Alliance, Cato Institute and Mackinac Center for Public, Business, Public, Sixth, Circuit, Education Department, SAVE, Biden's Education Department, Sixth Circuit, Supreme
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