LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) — A Sonoma State University student is claiming the California State University system should refund students' tuition from the more than $350 million in federal stimulus money it has received due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Akayla Miller, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, filed a complaint April 27 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California Western Division against the Board of Trustees of the California State University, alleging breach of contract, unjust enrichment and conversion.
Miller, a student at Sonoma State University, alleges in her complaint that she and all other spring 2020 semester students at any of the California State University's 23 campuses are entitled to tuition refunds due to the school's coronavirus pandemic closure.
The plaintiffs seek monetary relief, trial by jury, interest and all other proper relief. They are represented by C. Moze Cowper and Noel Garcia of Cowper Law LLP in Los Angeles; Adam Levitt, Amy Keller and Laura Reasons of DiCello Levitt Gutzler LLC in Chicago; and Matthew Miller of Matthew S. Miller LLC in Chicago.
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California Western Division case number 20-CV-3833