Ninth Circuit Dismisses Oregon Students’ Lawsuit Seeking COVID-19 Tuition Refund

A three-judge panel said that the students could have taken the offer to drop online classes and receive a full refund.
Ninth Circuit Dismisses Oregon Students’ Lawsuit Seeking COVID-19 Tuition Refund
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Bill Pan
Bill Pan
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A federal appellate court has dismissed a case filed by two Oregon State University students alleging the school breached contracts with them by moving classes online during the COVID-19 pandemic yet still charged full tuition.

In an opinion issued on July 8, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit unanimously upheld a lower court’s ruling, which found that the plaintiffs could have taken the full refund the university had offered.
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Bill Pan
Bill Pan
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Bill Pan is an Epoch Times reporter covering education issues and New York news.