{"id":187,"date":"2020-07-13T17:37:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T21:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/?p=187"},"modified":"2020-09-22T17:30:25","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T21:30:25","slug":"colleges-fear-covid-19-spread-class-actions-over-tuition-when-welcoming-back-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/2020\/07\/13\/colleges-fear-covid-19-spread-class-actions-over-tuition-when-welcoming-back-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Colleges Fear COVID-19 Spread, Class Actions Over Tuition When Welcoming Back Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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<p><span lang=\"EN\">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<p><span lang=\"EN\">\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<p>To read the full text of this article in <em>Corporate Counsel<\/em> magazine quoting Duane Morris partner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/edwardmcramp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ed Cramp<\/a>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/corpcounsel\/2020\/07\/10\/colleges-fear-covid-19-spread-class-actions-over-tuition-when-welcoming-back-students\/?slreturn=20200613173146\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit <em>law.com<\/em><\/a> (subscription required).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/2020\/07\/13\/colleges-fear-covid-19-spread-class-actions-over-tuition-when-welcoming-back-students\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Colleges Fear COVID-19 Spread, Class Actions Over Tuition When Welcoming Back Students&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[158,58,57,60,159,160],"ppma_author":[179],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-class-action-litigation","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-edward-cramp","tag-refunds","tag-tuition"],"authors":[{"term_id":179,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}