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MeneerDijk The Department of Education’s gainful employment rules, aimed at reigning in the for-profit college industry, came one step closer to its July implementation today as a judge threw out a for-profit industry lawsuit that attempted to further weaken the upcoming law. Reuters reports that U.S. District Court of New York Judge Lewis Kaplan upheld the rules, putting an end to one of two lawsuits filed by the for-profit education sector intended to diminish provisions that would penalize for-profits if too many of their graduates failed to succeed. The Association of Proprietary Colleges filed the lawsuit last November asking a federal judge to strike down the gainful employment rule that threatens to take away for-profit colleges’ access to federal student