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   California school system, once the envy of the entire free   
   world, after 40 years of Democrat control and parasitic   
   socialist union infestation.   
      
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   The University of Southern California, Yale and several other   
   elite colleges are being sued by multiple college students who   
   claim they were denied a fair opportunity for admission and have   
   had their degrees devalued due to a college cheating scheme   
   detailed by federal officials Tuesday.   
      
   The initial plaintiffs, Standford University students Erica   
   Olson and Kalea Woods, filed a class-action lawsuit in the U.S.   
   District Court for the Northern District of California on   
   Wednesday, a day after federal authorities said they've   
   uncovered one of the largest college admissions scams ever seen   
   in the U.S. The lawsuit seeks $5 million on behalf of what the   
   lawyers estimate will be thousands of plaintiffs who fit the   
   criteria to seek class status.   
      
   As of Thursday afternoon, Olsen was no longer involved in the   
   lawsuit and a revised version of the complaint had removed her   
   name. Woods remained in the suit, however, along with three new   
   plaintiffs. The new students hailed from Rutgers, Tulane and an   
   unnamed community college.   
      
   The University of San Diego, the University of Texas at Austin,   
   Wake Forest, Georgetown, Stanford, Yale and USC -- along with   
   William “Rick” Singer, who was called the ringleader of the   
   admissions scheme -- were also named as defendants.   
      
   The students claim they weren’t given a fair opportunity to be   
   accepted into the elite colleges where they'd applied because   
   some people were allegedly admitted based on fake athletic   
   profiles and distorted SAT and ACT scores obtained through   
   bribes.   
      
   "The students who filed the complaint didn’t receive what they   
   paid for — to participate in an application process free of   
   fraud," a statement from Zimmerman Reed LLP said. "According to   
   the complaint, these schools represented that their admission   
   process would be based on the applicants’ merits, considering   
   their character and performance. Instead, the students allege   
   that what they got was a process tainted by bribes and school   
   officials who failed to assure an honest application process."   
      
   "It’s a straightforward claim and a simple remedy. The students   
   want their money back," the statement continued. "They request   
   that anyone who paid an application fee to any of the eight   
   named universities but was denied admission gets their   
   application fee returned."   
      
   Singer would obtain college acceptance letters for his clients'   
   children by either helping them cheat on entrance exams or   
   pretend they were being recruited as an athlete in a school   
   sport, authorities said. The 58-year-old, who ran the for-profit   
   college prep business Edge College & Career Network (also known   
   as "The Key") and the charity Key Worldwide Foundation (KWF),   
   allegedly pitched it to parents as the "side door" method to   
   getting into colleges.   
      
   “Each of the universities were negligent in failing to maintain   
   adequate protocols and security measures in place to guarantee   
   the sanctity of the college admissions process, and to ensure   
   that their own employees were not engaged in these type of   
   bribery schemes,” the complaint stated.   
      
   The suit added, "Unqualified students found their way into the   
   admissions rolls of highly selective universities, while those   
   students who played by the rules and did not have college-   
   bribing parents were denied admission."   
      
   A former California teacher filed a $500 billion civil lawsuit   
   Wednesday against 45 defendants involved in the college   
   admissions scandal, Reuters reported. Jennifer Kay Toy said   
   wealthy parents who believed it was "OK to lie, cheat, steal and   
   bribe their children's way into a good college" robbed her son,   
   Joshua, of the chance to be admitted to colleges despite his 4.2   
   GPA.   
      
   She didn’t specify which colleges her son had sought to attend,   
   nor did it specify his ultimate selection, but said those   
   involved in the bribery scheme took away people’s “rights to a   
   fair chance at entrance to college,” Reuters reported.   
      
   Singer pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering and money   
      
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