New England Colleges Team Up to Fight Controversial Tuition Lawsuits

Yale, Brown and several other New England universities are urging a bankruptcy judge to protect colleges that are sued to return tuition paid by a student’s bankrupt parent, arguing that these types of lawsuits go against “societal and congressional expectations.”  Lawyers for two trade groups representing universities in Connecticut and Rhode Island are throwing their support behind Sacred Heart University, a private Catholic school in Fairfield, Conn., that has been sued for the return $66,275.18.