SISTEMA UNIVERSITARIO ANA G. MENDEZ v. RILEY

No. 00-1481.

234 F.3d 772 (2000)

SISTEMA UNIVERSITARIO ANA G. MENDEZ Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Richard W. RILEY, Secretary of Education, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 19, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leslie H. Wiesenfelder, with whom José E. De La Cruz Skerrett, Michael B. Goldstein, and Sherry A. Mastrostefano, and Dow, Lohnes & Albertson were on brief, for plaintiff-appellant.

Sarah L. Wanner, Office of the General Counsel, Department of Education, with whom Guillermo Gil, U.S. Attorney, and Lisa E. Bhatia Gautier, Assistant U.S. Attorney, were on brief, for defendant-appellee.

Before LYNCH, Circuit Judge, LIPEZ, Circuit Judge, and GARCÍA-GREGORY, District Judge.


LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

The United States Secretary of Education determined that certain programs run by a private university system in Puerto Rico did not meet the eligibility requirements for student financial assistance programs under Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, 20 U.S.C. §§ 1070 et seq. (1998). Title IV includes the popular Pell grant programs. As a result, the university system, the Sistema Universitario Ana G. M&...

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