Lawyers have guaranteed employment for years to come.
Hell, there may even be a lawyer shortage developing.
Ah, so THAT’S where all that stimulus money is going to go.
Greedy plaintiff lawyers?
How about lawyer groups suing PA and NY? 10’s of 1000’s of unecessary deaths happened in those states due directly to inept leadership in the states- Willful disregard for life committed by them too-
What is going to happen to private k-12 schools also?
While I am not a great defender of our post-high school academies of indoctrination, legally, in most cases the schools were not closed by their own choice - the government said they could not operate. They did not set out choosing to not give their students their classes. The schools were obeying government mandates against the schools normal operations.
All of that is likely to give colleges some good grounds to claim the most they will give students is credit for tuition paid against continuing classes with the school when the classes can resume.
On the other hand, the schools should be held to account, in some way, for not suspending teachers without pay when they were forced to suspend classes.
We have two grand kids whose spring terms were cut short, and they/their parents have never received a penny to pay for their cancelled courses.
Of course they never got refunds from their apartments.
CalState students were informed last week, that they would be only on line this next semester.
Some of these colleges are in counties with minimal if any Corona-19 cases and zero deaths.
A new member of our church was a full time professor at a well known mid west university. He finished his semester with his students on line in his new home.
He was contacted last week about running 3 more classes from his home this coming fall semester from that college.
I recommended that he call another church member who has been basically replacing the ivy walled schools with the internet for several years. None of this bait and switch being done by the rich universities with expensive ivy growing on their unused class rooms.
If they want to keep the money, they need to improve their online product.
The suits appear legitimate and the students likely to prevail.
Consider: Is America ready to force BK upon hundreds of institutions?
Certainly I and many here are.
But the country as a whole believes in this voodoo. Politically, that’s enough for a big bailout.
So the law firms will get a $50 million settlement, of which $40 million will go to the firms themselves. Leaving the students with pennies on the dollar for their losses. I suggest that the plaintiffs learn about the term "Pyrrhic Victory" if they don't already know the term.
It keeps the kids out of the clutches of the Marxists a bit longer.