Colleges and universities across the country are beginning to figure out what the fall semester for students will look like. In-house counsel at the schools that have chosen to bring students back to campus full-time need to worry about furthering the spread of the new coronavirus and class action litigation over refunds for tuition, housing and service fees.<\/p>\n
It is too early to tell how courts will rule on these kinds of lawsuits,\u00a0Ed Cramp, a partner at\u00a0Duane Morris\u00a0in San Diego said. From his perspective, how education is delivered to a student is not something guaranteed by the university. However, the suits asking for a refund of fees for services not used could be problematic.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe issue for the institutions is that many of them just don\u2019t have the money. It is not a matter of, \u2018Let me just write you a check,\u2019\u201d Cramp said.<\/span><\/p>\n To read the full text of this article in\u00a0Corporate Counsel<\/em>\u00a0magazine quoting Duane Morris partner\u00a0Ed Cramp<\/a>, please\u00a0visit\u00a0law.com<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(subscription required).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Colleges and universities across the country are beginning to figure out what the fall semester for students will look like. In-house counsel at the schools that have chosen to bring students back to campus full-time need to worry about furthering the spread of the new coronavirus and class action litigation over refunds for tuition, housing … <\/p>\n