Temple University’s $6.9M Pandemic Closure Settlement Given Preliminary OK

( October 18, 2024, 1:48 PM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — A federal judge in Pennsylvania preliminarily approved a $6.9 million settlement to be paid by a Philadelphia university to end a consolidated class complaint by students accusing the school of unjust enrichment and breaching its implied contractual duty to provide in-person education and access to campus services when it shut its doors in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic....