Posted on 05/17/2020 11:24:15 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
...The lawsuits seek damages related to depriving students of in-person instruction and campus amenities without issuing any form of tuition refunds. Some schools have even declined to issue room and board reimbursements.
The South Carolina-based Anastopoulo law firm kicked off the suits in mid-April, filing on behalf of students at Drexel University and the University of Miami. Since then, the firm has filed an additional 19 lawsuits against colleges and universities across the entire country.
Hagens Berman law firm, which has offices nationwide, has also filed eight similar lawsuits against colleges and universities...Hagens Berman law firm has a webpage dedicated to encouraging students to sue their colleges, stating that the firm is “investigating universities and colleges across the nation and is seeking to represent students, parents and guardians against any higher education institution that has failed to repay losses due to COVID-19.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at thecollegefix.com ...
Lawyers have guaranteed employment for years to come.
Hell, there may even be a lawyer shortage developing.
Ah, so THAT’S where all that stimulus money is going to go.
Greedy plaintiff lawyers?
How about lawyer groups suing PA and NY? 10’s of 1000’s of unecessary deaths happened in those states due directly to inept leadership in the states- Willful disregard for life committed by them too-
This is a perfect example of the right way to use our system of litigation.
What is going to happen to private k-12 schools also?
They university should have offered repayment to students to avoid this
While I am not a great defender of our post-high school academies of indoctrination, legally, in most cases the schools were not closed by their own choice - the government said they could not operate. They did not set out choosing to not give their students their classes. The schools were obeying government mandates against the schools normal operations.
All of that is likely to give colleges some good grounds to claim the most they will give students is credit for tuition paid against continuing classes with the school when the classes can resume.
On the other hand, the schools should be held to account, in some way, for not suspending teachers without pay when they were forced to suspend classes.
The big corporations the professoriat loves to attack would have to refund the money if they could not provide the goods.
I have a hard time deciding who’s side I am on.
Leftist indoctrination centers (most universities) or leftist money laundering service facilitators (many law firms). Tough choice.
Someday I might research these two particular firms. Maybe they are one of the good guys, or at least are sort of middle of the road.
We have two grand kids whose spring terms were cut short, and they/their parents have never received a penny to pay for their cancelled courses.
Of course they never got refunds from their apartments.
CalState students were informed last week, that they would be only on line this next semester.
Some of these colleges are in counties with minimal if any Corona-19 cases and zero deaths.
A new member of our church was a full time professor at a well known mid west university. He finished his semester with his students on line in his new home.
He was contacted last week about running 3 more classes from his home this coming fall semester from that college.
I recommended that he call another church member who has been basically replacing the ivy walled schools with the internet for several years. None of this bait and switch being done by the rich universities with expensive ivy growing on their unused class rooms.
“I see it from a different perspective. The universities cannot provide that for which they contracted with the students, an on campus in person learning program complete with all the support facilities like libraries and labs. They haven’t earned the tuition that are refusing to refund.”
I don’t disagree with what you say the schools are not doing. Of course they are not. That to me is not the question.
My argument is that most of what they are not doing is not because it was their choice to not do it. Their legal argument will be that government LEGALLY mandated against their normal operations, forcing the inability of the schools to carryout out their contracts with students. That same defense will likely be the defense of thousands of businesses that wound up unable to honor their contracts, due to no choice of their own, but due to following government edicts. I imagine that defense will hold up, with the schools and otherwise.
The students should be suing the government for it is by the actions of government their education was denied.
If they want to keep the money, they need to improve their online product.
The suits appear legitimate and the students likely to prevail.
Consider: Is America ready to force BK upon hundreds of institutions?
Certainly I and many here are.
But the country as a whole believes in this voodoo. Politically, that’s enough for a big bailout.
When Hillary lost, the legal profession really was panicking.
So the law firms will get a $50 million settlement, of which $40 million will go to the firms themselves. Leaving the students with pennies on the dollar for their losses. I suggest that the plaintiffs learn about the term "Pyrrhic Victory" if they don't already know the term.
There’s an “act of God” out on most contracts, that if things far beyond your control keep you from fulfilling it you can get out of it without reimbursement. That being said most of these universities went to online classes to provide as best they could their half of the bargain. And most places aren’t doing anything in the way of refunds, most gyms aren’t.
Ambulance chasers regarding covid19 are going to come out of the woodwork. Watch.
It keeps the kids out of the clutches of the Marxists a bit longer.
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