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  Judge won't dismiss class action lawsuit accusing elite colleges, universities of financial aid collusion

  By Scott Holland | Tuesday, Aug 16, 2022 @ 8:21pm

  Plaintiffs claims tuition would've been cheaper but for an agreement among some of America's top colleges and universities, including University of Chicago, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Brown, Yale, Cal Tech, MIT and Duke, among others.

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  Judge pauses Chicago opioid lawsuit; judges mull consolidating host of similar cases nationally

  By Jonathan Bilyk | Thursday, Dec 7, 2017 @ 4:36pm

  A federal judge has placed on hold the city of Chicago’s lawsuit accusing the makers of prescription painkillers like Oxycontin and Percocet – so-called “opioids” – of falsely marketing their drugs to doctors. defrauding City Hall and other employee health plan administrators, while giving time for a panel of federal judges to decide if the action should be consolidated with other similar lawsuits, brought by cities and others, now pending in other jurisdictions.

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