On January 8, 2009, the attorney for those to be paid in the settlement filed a motion for the court to force Hidden Lake Academy to pay. On January 19, the school's attorney filed a response to the Motion to Enforce Settlement and Judgment, citing a "drastic decrease in the student body of Hidden Lake Academy subsequent to, and in my opinion, caused by the filing" of the complaint against the school, "and a continuing barrage of negative emails to educational consultants who in the past referred prospective students" to the school, an affidavit attached to the motion states.