Both Columbia and Pace are being sued by students who say the universities owe them reimbursement as well as damages for services that are no longer available now that campuses are closed.
— facing legal complaints aimed at their response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Thursday's suits were filed in federal court on behalf of Xaviera Marbury, a student at Pace, and an unnamed student at Columbia. Both complaints say students are owed reimbursement as well as damages for services that are no longer available now that campuses are closed. In both cases, those services include:ii. Access to facilities such as computer labs, study rooms, laboratories, libraries, etc.;iv. Extra-curricular activities, groups, intramurals, etc.;vii.
The complaints, filed by a personal injury law firm in South Carolina, seek class action status on behalf of Columbia and Pace students. That same firm, Anastopoulo Law Firm, is also behind the suits against the University of Miami and Drexel. "Universities are not delivering those services that students and their families have paid for," Anastopoulo attorney Roy T. Willey IV tells NPR."It's not fair for the universities with multi-million dollar endowments to keep all of the money that students and their families have paid."
If the suits gain traction, the resulting damages would be a further blow to colleges already reeling from the financial impacts of the coronavirus. As NPR's Elissa Nadworny
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