Education Law
Feb. 24, 2021
Biden’s DOJ supports Trump’s education secretary on deposition
The Department of Justice sided with former education secretary Betsy DeVos’ personal attorney, Jesse Panuccio of Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, in opposing the former Cabinet member’s deposition after U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco allowed her to be served with a subpoena.
Attorneys for defrauded for-profit college students challenging delays and blanket denials of loan forgiveness claims are pushing to depose former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos in a case where President Joe Biden's administration is backing her attempts to avoid having to testify.
DeVos has "unique, firsthand knowledge of issues at the heart of the underlying litigation," the plaintiffs' attorneys wrote in court filings on Monday...
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