MIAMI (Legal Newsline) — A University of Miami architecture student has filed a class action against the school alleging the online curriculum she was forced to take due to the COVID-19 outbreak is ineffective for her major.
Valeria Dimitryuk, on behalf of herself and all others similarly situated, filed a complaint April 26 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Miami against the University of Miami alleging breach of contract, unjust enrichment and conversion.
Dimitryuk is an undergraduate architecture major enrolled at the University of Miami. She alleges that she paid $22,617 in tuition and fees for the Spring 2020 semester and that the online classes the university switched to due to the Coronavirus outbreak are "ineffective" for her major.
She also alleges she and other students are entitled to a tuition refund since they are not able to utilize the school's on-campus facilities.
Dimitryuk seeks monetary relief, interest, trial by jury and all other just relief. She is represented by Sarah Westcot and Andrew Obergfell of Bursor & Fisher PA in Miami and New York.
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Miami case number 0:20-CV-60851