A 2013 lawsuit against mogul and 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump moved forward this week. A California judge permitted thousands of former students at Trump’s for-profit Trump Entrepreneurial Initiative to join in a class-action lawsuit.
The Trump Entrepreneurial Initiative was formerly known as “Trump University,” before the New York Department of Education banned Trump from using the name in 2005. His school did not offer degrees and was not certified, which led to its dropping of the university title.
Central to the suit against Trump is the plaintiffs’ view that they would receive an education “on par with elite business schools, such as the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.”
Trump’s lawyer, Alan Garten, is planning an appeal of the ruling to certify the class-action lawsuit.
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