NYU Student’s Covid Closure Case Won’t Proceed as Class Action

A former New York University student seeking a tuition refund because classes moved online during the Covid-19 pandemic failed to convince a federal court to let her lawsuit proceed as a class action.

Casey E. Hall-Landers, a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of Arts, didn’t meet the requirements for class certification, Judge George B. Daniels of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled Wednesday.

• Daniels adopted Magistrate Judge Sarah Cave’s Dec. 6 report, which recommended that Hall-Landers’s motion for class certification be denied
• Hall-Landers showed that proposed class members suffered the same injury and that ...