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Several students also are suing Stone Academy and Bierbaum in a separate lawsuit. Tong said the students were deprived of nursing careers at a time when more nurses are needed nationwide to deal with multiple health crises including opioid overdoses and COVID-19. Advertisement Stone Academy, in a statement, called the lawsuit baseless and blamed other state agencies for forcing the school to close. Bierbaum declined to comment through a lawyer. Other news Woman sues dentist after 4 root canals, 8 dental crowns and 20 fillings in a single visit An ‘almost naked’ party of Russian elites brings on jail time, a lawsuit and apologies China’s Alibaba must face a US toymaker’s lawsuit over sales of allegedly fake Squishmallows Tong said Stone Academy aggressively used marketing to recruit students, many of them Black and Hispanic women who took out loans and used their life savings to pay the more than $30,000 in tuition and other costs to become licensed practical nurses. 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