College Bribery Class Case Has Novel Theory That Just Might Work

The first class action filed over the college admissions scandal presents a novel legal argument: that schools promised a fair admissions process and applicants were injured when the schools failed to monitor the process.

The suit, filed in the guise of a consumer fraud claim, “is really creative,” David Noll, a civil procedure scholar at Rutgers Law School in Newark, N.J., told Bloomberg Law. “You have to admire that,” he said.

College students sued eight universities—University of Southern California, Stanford University, Yale University, Georgetown University, and others—on behalf of themselves and others who applied but weren’t admitted to the schools. ...