Harvard Law School (ALM Archives)
A Harvard Law student has filed a class action against the university, arguing that students should be charged lower tuition for online classes on the grounds that they are inferior to in-person instruction.
Harvard is the latest target in a wave of litigation focused on college and university tuition reimbursements amid the COVID-19 pandemic — at least 100 campuses have been sued thus far. Plaintiffs firms Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, which is representing incoming second-year law student Abraham Barkhordar, has also filed suit against 13 other universities.
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