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Education Law,
Civil Litigation

Sep. 15, 2020

USC fights back against students who sued over online learning

Educational malpractice doctrine provides claims regarding quality of instruction is not identifiable under settled California law.

Complaints about the quality of a school's method of teaching during a pandemic are not cognizable claims under state law, according to the University of Southern California, which faces lawsuits from students unhappy about online instruction which they say is inferior.

More than 200 USC students sued the school for refusing to refund tuition and campus service fees after in-person classes ceased in early spring, and resorted to vir...

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