Yale Doesn’t Owe Students Refunds for Canceling In-Person Classes Over COVID-19: Court

Published on August 8, 2024

Yale University does not need to give refunds to students after canceling in-person classes in early 2020, a federal appeals court ruled on Aug. 7. Yale was accused of providing inferior education than it promised, but the university had the discretion to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic by transitioning completely to online classes without issuing tuition refunds, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said. Jonathan Michel, a sophomore at Yale at the time, paid tuition to the university for the spring of 2020, which started normally but, after nine weeks, was transitioned from in-person to remote over COVID-19....

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