December 13, 2024
Tufts University on Friday defeated a putative class action seeking tuition refunds for pandemic closures of the Boston-area school's campus, as a Massachusetts federal judge upheld a state law providing immunity to colleges that shut their doors during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
September 20, 2023
A provision in the Massachusetts state budget that retroactively grants colleges and universities immunity from lawsuits seeking partial tuition refunds, after classes moved online at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, unconstitutionally infringes on his right to enforce a contract, a former Tufts University dental student has told a federal district judge.
April 20, 2023
A Tufts University student leading a putative class seeking refunds after instruction shifted online during the COVID-19 pandemic told a Massachusetts federal court Thursday that his suspension from the school and related credit to his account doesn't sink the contract case.
March 14, 2023
A Tufts University graduate student's "damaging" deposition tanked his COVID-19 tuition refund suit when he couldn't conjure up a memory of the school ever promising him an exclusively in-person education, the school said Monday.