New Tax Rules To Pose Challenges for Low-Income Taxpayers in 2018
April 17, 2018
Federal Tax Clinic
As taxpayers file their federal and state income taxes for 2017, many are wondering what effects the federal Tax Cuts and Job Acts (TCJA) passed by Congress in December will have on what they will ...
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Partial Borrower Defense Denials Violate Due Process, Privacy Act: Injunction Sought Against DeVos, Department of Education
March 19, 2018
Project on Predatory Student Lending
A court filing over the weekend revealed that the U.S. Department of Education secretly, illegally, and unconstitutionally used Social Security data to deny loan discharges to students cheated by Corinthian Colleges, Inc. Four borrowers, on ...
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ITT Students’ $1.5 Billion Settlement Heard by Judge In Bankruptcy
January 24, 2018
Consumer Protection Clinic
Today, former ITT students proposed a $1.5 billion settlement claim in bankruptcy court that would cancel more than $500 million in debts. All participants in the case and members of the class have until April ...
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Kensinger Named Co-winner of 2018 ABA Tax Section Spragens Pro Bono Award
January 17, 2018
Federal Tax Clinic
Legal Services Center volunteer tax attorney Dale Kensinger has been named recipient of the Janet Spragens Pro Bono Award from the American Bar Association’s Tax Section. He will receive the award at a luncheon on ...
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Proposed Settlement to be Heard January 24
January 5, 2018
ITT Bankruptcy
A year ago former ITT students filed a complaint against ITT and a class Proof of Claim in the ITT bankruptcy case. In this last year we have worked hard to fight on behalf of ...
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Tax Clinic Student Argues Case Before US Court of Appeals
December 23, 2017
Federal Tax Clinic
In December, Amy Feinberg ’18 became the second Federal Tax Clinic student to have the exhilarating experience of arguing an appeal in circuit court since the Clinic opened at Legal Services Center of Harvard Law ...
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Department of Education Illegally Slashes Debt Relief for Corinthian Borrowers
December 21, 2017
Project on Predatory Student Lending
Martin was talked into WyoTech’s automotive technology program instead of community college. But the program was a complete fraud – he rarely touched a car while there, and the great jobs promised to him were ...
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Tax Lawyer from India Describes Her LSC Federal Tax Clinic Experience
December 14, 2017
Federal Tax Clinic
Varsha Bhattacharya L.L.M. ’18 is a tax lawyer hailing from India who previously dealt primarily with corporate clients and is now getting an L.L.M. degree at Harvard Law. As a student in LSC’s Federal Tax ...
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Kaplan Has Been Exploiting Veterans
December 11, 2017
Project on Predatory Student Lending
For-profit colleges have exploited the promise of higher education by deceiving tens of thousands of students seeking a better life. One of the groups the for-profit industry has particularly targeted are veterans and servicemembers. That ...
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Negotiated Rulemaking Reconvenes in Washington D.C. for Act Two of Regulatory Theater
December 4, 2017
News
This week, in a conference room in Washington D.C., various stakeholders of the federal student aid programs will meet to discuss whether there should be any check on the cost and value of vocational training ...
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Project on Predatory Student Lending’s Director of Litigation, Eileen Connor, selected for the 2017 “Rising Star” award from the National Consumer Law Center
November 17, 2017
News
The Project on Predatory Student Lending’s Director of Litigation, Eileen Connor, has been selected for the 2017 “Rising Star” award from the National Consumer Law Center for her significant contributions to consumer law. Eileen’s award ...
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Is VA Wrongfully Excluding Hundreds of Thousands of Veterans from Needed Care
November 16, 2017
Veterans Legal Clinic
In a publication of the Penn State Law Review, Dana Montalto of the Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School, along with colleague Bradford Adams of Swords to Plowshares, provides a legal history and analysis ...
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