January 26, 2023
Former students want to put the massive donations that helped wealthy children get into "need-blind" schools front and center in an antitrust case accusing top private universities of conspiring to limit financial aid, as they blasted a subset of institutions Wednesday for trying to hide those details.
January 17, 2023
Admissions processes, donations tracking, scholarships, college decisions and more are on the line as discovery continues to heat up in an antitrust lawsuit from former students accusing Yale, Columbia, Duke, Emory and other top private universities of conspiring to limit financial aid.
January 02, 2023
The Federal Trade Commission prepares to test the limits of its authority to combat unfair methods of competition in the coming year, as the U.S. Department of Justice and state enforcers continue pushing aggressive antitrust agendas alongside new proposed class actions from private parties.
August 15, 2022
An Illinois federal judge allowed a suit accusing over a dozen top private universities of conspiring to limit financial aid to move forward despite claims from the schools that their actions were permitted under an exemption to antitrust law.
July 07, 2022
The U.S. Department of Justice is looking to wade into a suit accusing more than a dozen top private universities, including Brown, Duke and Yale, of conspiring to limit financial aid, to argue that an antitrust exemption applies only if all the involved schools meet its requirements.
April 18, 2022
More than a dozen top private universities, including Brown, Duke and Yale, have urged an Illinois federal court to toss a suit accusing them of conspiring to limit financial aid, arguing they have an exemption from antitrust laws to work together on the process for offering aid.
January 10, 2022
Students lodged a proposed class action Sunday accusing a slew of top private universities, including Brown, Duke and Yale, of participating in a price-fixing cartel allegedly aimed at eliminating financial aid as a point of competition between the schools.