March 5, 2018
ABA: Student loan class actions take aim at “a massive effort to defraud student debtors”
The following article was originally published by the American Bar Association’s Business Torts and Unfair Competition Section on March 5, 2018. With a new understanding of the Bankruptcy Code in courts around the country, and a putative nationwide class action alleging that the nation’s biggest student loan servicer, Navient,…
February 23, 2018
WWL-TV: Air near SE Louisiana plant poses highest cancer risk in US
“There’s no place in St. John that has a safe level of chloroprene,” Bobby Taylor said. “Man, that is frightening.” Taylor formed the Concerned Citizens of St. John after seeing rare forms of cancer and other illnesses affecting his neighbors. “This family right here lost the mother and the father and…
July 28, 2017
Jones Swanson, co-counsel, file nationwide class action against student loan giant Navient
In a case that could offer relief to thousands of student debtors across the country, Jones Swanson has joined with five other law firms to file a nationwide class action lawsuit against America’s biggest student loan servicer, Navient. The suit, Evan Brian Crocker et al. v. Navient…
July 27, 2017
National class action gets relief for student borrowers from Navient’s collection calls
For years, Michael Shahbazi’s phone has often rung numerous times a day with calls from the nation’s largest educational loan servicing company, Navient, pressing him for payments on his student loan. In 2011, Mr. Shahbazi filed for bankruptcy, and yet still the calls continued. Navient has also called his…
