Ah, I can explain:
These parents are divorced. Here in NJ, after a divorce, the parents are required to pay for their children’s college education for four years.
So, this ruling is very common here. The only thing unusual about this case is that the daughter herself filed the lawsuit. (Usually one parent is bringing the other parent to court over it.)
However, NJ law doesn’t say the child gets to choose any college she wants. (At least, that’s not my understanding of it.) An in-state college would be less expensive.
Are these parents very wealthy? Maybe that was taken into account in the case.
Nobody has a right to expect their parents to pay for college.
Here in NJ, after a divorce, the parents are required to pay for their children’s college education for four years.
There's actually some logic to that, IMHO. Divorce can have a negative impact on a child's educational accomplishments, and fewer kids of divorce go to college. Since the parents apparently imposed one barrier through the divorce, they're required to lower another barrier.
Whether that's the actual claimed logic behind the law, I have no idea, but I would guess there's some argument explaining why divorced parents have a legal obligation to put their kid through college while parents who haven't divorced don't, and that's the obvious one.