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DOJ Lawsuit Challenging Minnesota In-State Tuition Policies Dismissed

DOJ Lawsuit Challenging Minnesota In-State Tuition Policies Dismissed

Katherine Knott
Inside Higher Ed

A Minnesota judge dismissed the federal government’s challenge to a state law in Minnesota that makes some undocumented students eligible for in-state tuition.

This is the first ruling against the Trump administration’s campaign to end in-state tuition for undocumented students—a policy that the government’s lawyers have argued violates federal laws. In three of the seven lawsuits so far, the states agreed with the administration and scrapped their state laws. But Minnesota challenged the Justice Department in court and sought to dismiss the lawsuit altogether.

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