[Gay State Conservative]

OK,cool. But are you suggesting that these parents can still be prosecuted despite today's ruling? Although everything I know about the law was learned watching “Rumpole Of The Bailey”,when you say “the money or property acquired by fraud is the value of the college education...” that suggests to me that the courts would recognize that degrees granted by some schools are more valuable,monetarily,that those granted by others.

[Labyrinthos]

when you say “the money or property acquired by fraud is the value of the college education...” that suggests to me that the courts would recognize that degrees granted by some schools are more valuable,monetarily,that those granted by others.That's not what I am suggesting; rather, the person fraudulently misrepresented their qualifications to obtain something of value that that they would not have obtained if they had told the truth.

With that said, the SCOTUS decision does raise the issue of whether the parents can be convicted of fraud if their child did not knowingly participate in the scheme, since the child, not the parents received the fruits of the crime.