SMU Student Seeks Reinstatement Of Contract Breach Claim In Pandemic Closure Suit

Mealey's (November 22, 2022, 7:27 AM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — Dismissal of a breach of contract claim on behalf of a putative class against Southern Methodist University (SMU) after the school shut its doors and transferred all learning to online in March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic should be reversed as the trial court failed to consider whether the school’s Student Agreement guaranteed in-person instruction, a student argues in his appellant brief filed in the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals....