Fla. Appeals Court Certifies University Pandemic Closure Question To Supreme Court

(December 1, 2022, 7:39 AM EST) -- TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A Florida trial court should have dismissed a university student’s breach of contract claim in his putative class complaint over the shutdown of on-campus facilities during the start of the coronavirus pandemic as he failed to show that there was “an express written contract sufficient to overcome sovereign immunity,” a split Florida appellate panel held in an opinion in which the full panel certified a question concerning that sovereign immunity to the state’s high court....

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