{"id":2450,"date":"2024-08-29T21:04:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T21:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/judge-sides-with-study-abroad-organization-learning-changes-due-to-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2024-08-29T21:04:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T21:04:06","slug":"judge-sides-with-study-abroad-organization-learning-changes-due-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/judge-sides-with-study-abroad-organization-learning-changes-due-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Sides With Study Abroad Organization Learning Changes Due to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>A\u00a0federal judge in Illinois dismissed a\u00a0college student\u2019s request for a partial refund after a European study abroad\u00a0program was cut short because of the COVID-19 pandemic, concluding a clause in the organization\u2019s contract offered \u201cno refunds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1RNhiksWgXmpGhoIwKvUCXPtMUQ7KN7-9\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Monday opinion<\/a>, U.S. District Judge\u00a0Joan B. Gottschall for the Northern District of Illinois granted study abroad organization, the Institute for the International Education of Student\u2019s motion to dismiss breach of contract and unjust enrichment claims brought by then-University of Virginia student, Kristen Galban. Galban sought a refund after her semester-long study abroad program in Vienna, Austria was cut short and moved online in spring 2020, due to the global pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0federal judge in Illinois dismissed a\u00a0college student\u2019s request for a partial refund after a European study abroad\u00a0program was cut short because of the COVID-19 pandemic, concluding a clause [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[500,3233,423,3232,3231,704,3230],"class_list":["post-2450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-covid19","tag-due","tag-judge","tag-learning","tag-organization","tag-sides","tag-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}