( June 27, 2025, 22:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The University of Notre Dame, University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown, Cornell, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology must face US price-fixing claims, plaintiffs argued in a filing. “Record evidence shows that defendants engaged in a long-running overarching conspiracy, through the 568 Group, on the principles and methods for calculating and awarding such aid and for sharing pricing-related information. In deciding what the ‘effective family contribution’ towards tuition would be, defendants sought to impose a formula that set a floor for such price discounts and to control the frequency and extent of any deviations from that floor,” they said. See attached....
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