Another Student Suit Challenging Fee Increases

Students have commenced a class action against the UC Regents for increasing fees.  The students say that they entered into a contract with the university when they accepted admission, and claim that the fee increases are a breach of that contract.  As an example, the students point to 2002 and 2003 Boalt Hall School of Law catalogs and applications, which stated that “the professional degree fee remains at the same level for the three years in which the student is enrolled in the program.” 

The lead plaintiff, Andrea Luquetta, is a third-year student at UCLA School of Law.  She raised concerns that the fee increases “make[] it harder for low-income people to access education.”  UC says that it has to raise the fees due to budget constraints, and claims that the effect of this and other class action lawsuits is to “shift the cost of the plaintiffs’ education to other students.”

[Meredith R. Miller]