Bruckno et al v. Tufts University

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Case overview

Case Number:

1:20-cv-11940

Court:

Massachusetts

Nature of Suit:

Contract: Other

Multi Party Litigation:

Class Action

Judge:

Angel Kelley

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  1. December 13, 2024

    Mass. Law Wipes Out Pandemic Tuition Case Against Tufts

    Tufts University on Friday defeated a putative class action seeking tuition refunds for pandemic closures of the Boston-area school's campus, as a Massachusetts federal judge upheld a state law providing immunity to colleges that shut their doors during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

  2. September 20, 2023

    Judge Urged To Ignore Mass. COVID-Suit Shield In Tufts Case

    A provision in the Massachusetts state budget that retroactively grants colleges and universities immunity from lawsuits seeking partial tuition refunds, after classes moved online at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, unconstitutionally infringes on his right to enforce a contract, a former Tufts University dental student has told a federal district judge.

  3. April 20, 2023

    Tufts Student Says Credit Not Fatal To Pandemic Refund Case

    A Tufts University student leading a putative class seeking refunds after instruction shifted online during the COVID-19 pandemic told a Massachusetts federal court Thursday that his suspension from the school and related credit to his account doesn't sink the contract case.

  4. March 14, 2023

    Tufts Says 'Damaging' Depo Sinks Pandemic Refund Case

    A Tufts University graduate student's "damaging" deposition tanked his COVID-19 tuition refund suit when he couldn't conjure up a memory of the school ever promising him an exclusively in-person education, the school said Monday.