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a Wartburg College student, filed a class action lawsuit earlier this week. The claim is the student through tuition, paid for access to on campus facilities and in person classes for the 2020 spring semester, which the pandemic cut short two months. The tuition refund is certainly a new novel idea coming out of the pandemic bark. Coppola Rude, an attorney from the West Des Moines law firm helping represent the case, says this lawsuit has a narrow focus. They went to campus. They expected the on life campus experience and the, you know, in classroom teaching. And midway through the semester, that all changed. They went to remote learning, and they no longer had, but as the basis for claims, they no longer had access to that on campus and personal experience, he says. Amount Mercy Student filed a similar suit against the Cedar Rapids University. The same law firms are handling this case as well. Both are class action lawsuits, meaning other students enrolled in those colleges in the spring of 2020 could see some of their money back. If the lawsuits are successful That way, tens or hundreds or thousands of people don’t have to file their own individual lawsuit. It can be brought by one person. KCR gtv nine reached out to both colleges and did not hear back from Mount Mercy University. Wartburg College SAYS it can’t comment on pending litigation. Becky Phelps KCR g T v. Nine News