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Company: Temple University
Penalty: $5,475,000
Year: 2019
Date: August 5, 2019
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: Temple agreed to pay more than $5 million to settle litigation alleging it manipulated data to inflate the ranking of its online business programs in U.S. News & World Report.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: private litigation
Court: Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Case ID: 2:18cv590
Case Name: Smith v. Temple University
Private Lawsuit Resolution Type: settlement
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