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Unsuccessful College Applicants Lack Standing to Sue in Admissions Scandal

Unsuccessful College Applicants Lack Standing to Sue in Admissions Scandal

Unsuccessful College Applicants Lack Standing to Sue in Admissions Scandal

Court finds that plaintiff students failed to show a particularized injury from alleged Key Worldwide payoffs
Two students who claimed that they lost out on college admission because of Rick Singer’s alleged payoffs to get students into colleges and universities as qualified student athletes have seen their cases thrown out by a federal District Court in California. The Court said that they had not claimed a particularized individual injury and lacked standing to sue. Two students sued a large number of defendants claiming they were denied admission because Singer engineered a scheme to get others admitted in return for a variety of payoffs. The investigation has led to several convictions so far. The students argued specifically that they were damaged because they paid application fees without...

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