What an ingrate. And what terrible judgment! How could he not expect this to damage his TTT legal career?

Nice try, douchbag.

Why did this guy even bother filing this suit? I guess he has nothing else to do with his time.

SMU wasn't just giving him free tuition, it was giving it as part of a program just like any other student would have to pay. At my school, when you visit another you pay the other school's tuition rate and then also have to pay a matriculation fee.

So the guy is studied at SMU (in Dallas) when Loyola shut down due to Katrina? How could that unjustly enrich Loyola? Loyola presumably had to pay something to SMU, and this guy graduated "without delay". What a jerk.

An ingrate? No, just an econ major. See e.g., Robert H. Frank, Thomas D. Gilovich & Dennis T. Regan, "Do Economists Make Bad Citizens?" 10 Journal of Economic Perspectives 187-92 (1996). The topic is now a major thesis category for economics graduate students.

dude, where are the damages?

what an idiot

This dude should be drawn and quartered.

This loser is p-town material. Where the "p" stands for "pound."

I mean really, this boy needs a cajun-styled can of whoop-ass opened on him. Nice link to his bio and email Lat, this idiot is going to have one full email box.

Schools like Loyola, Hofstra and Cumberland should be shut down! This sh*t wouldn't be happening!

P-town to 35k and a taylor pork roll!!!!

Back at my TTT school, law students sued crap schools like SMU and Loyola all the time, it was no big deal.

"Wait, wait...So What you're saying is that just because I went to a school that costs more than what I paid for the semester, Loyola credited me all of the credits I earned there, and I have no damages... I don't have a cause of action? That's crazy!"

3 words for this guy:

YOU A HO

It's cute that he still lists all his law school mock trial "credentials" in his firm bio.

This sounds like the perfect case for assessing attorneys' fees against the loser.

There will always be unbelievably greedy lawyers.
There will always be unbelievably stupid lawyers.

It would be nice if there wasn't this much overlap between the two groups...

As an aside, how can someone who makes an argument like that be of sufficient moral character to be admitted to the bar?

Long time reader, first time commenter here. . .

All because I have to say - this guy is such an ass.

The problem is this...three weeks after school started both New Orleans law schools were closed due to Hurricane Katrina. Many law schools across the country opened their schools and their hearts to these students, offering them a semester of free tuition. Yes they were visiting students, BUT Tulane and Loyola did not pay anything for those students to go there. Normally they would have to pay for the visiting student – but they did not pay one penny. Tulane and Loyola also got money from the government for lost tuition and insurance money for the buildings, however they still required all students to pay full tuition with the threat that they would not accept the credits from the other schools if the students did not pay the tuition, thus students would not be able to graduate. Tulane and Loyola took advantage of the generosity of these other schools for their own gain, when those schools were trying to help out the students. To give you some perspective of what these students went through….when the students found new law schools to attend for the semester, they discovered that all financial aid money had already been sent to Tulane and Loyola and hadn’t been distributed yet. So these students who depended on financial aid to live off of and pay for law school, like most students, now had no money. Do you think Tulane or Loyola helped those students get that money? No, that money was kept by the schools until the following semester when the students returned to New Orleans, no doubt collecting thousands in interest – so more money gained by the schools at the student’s expense. Many students were broke, homeless, lost everything they owned, had to rebuy text books for the new schools, four weeks late to a new law school and struggled to catch up…and not to mention the emotional toll of all this. Those that were lucky enough not to lose their homes found themselves in a situation where they had to pay rent in two places – New Orleans and their new home. No one dared give up their apartments because of the housing shortage in the city after the hurricane. It was a very costly and emotionally difficult semester from the majority of the displaced New Orleans students. Many wanted to sue and found it very unfair that they had to pay tuition. Yes this particular guy appears to have gotten a “deal” by going from a third tier school to a first tier school…but many Tulane students (first tier) were forced to go to third tier schools. You had to go to school wherever you could find a place to live. Those students paid $16,000 for a $3,000-$5,000 education. Hardly a “deal.”

What I don't agree with is the argument that he got a "Tier 1" education for the price of a "Tier 3." That's bullshit and insulting to any Tier 3 school (which, thank God, I did not have to subject myself to).

What this guy should have argued was that he was damaged when Loyola had the nerve to get hit by Hurricane Katrina. I'm sick of these Mother Fucking Hurricanes taking out Mother Fucking Tier Three Law Schools!

My friends and I tried filing a similar class action when we were in high school. Wasn't a big deal.

Did I mention I can bench 285, and it used to be 345 when I was on steroids?

I was one of those Tulane students. I was one of the many who thought it was unfair and I was proud that this Loyola student had the courage to stand up and try to do something about it. Many of us knew that no judge in Louisiana would force the schools to give us our money back so we didn't bother. I am sorry that this guy is now being called names when he was one of the only ones with courage to at least try.

I was one of the Tulane students that went to a third tier school. I found that the quality of the school and the professors was excellent. I am not knocking the schools. What I am knocking is the price of tuition. If Tulane would have had to pay that school for the tuition for a visiting student - which would be the normal situation - they would have paid $4500. So why did I have to pay Tulane $16,000??? AND like the comment above states, Tulane did not pay one penny of that tuition.

I was one of the Tulane students that went to a third tier school. I found that the quality of the school and the professors to be excellent. The school, students, and professors were very good to me. I am not knocking the schools. What I am knocking is the price of tuition which is substantially different from a first tier to a third tier school. If Tulane would have had to pay that school for the tuition for a visiting student - which would be the normal situation - they would have paid $4500. So why did I have to pay Tulane $16,000??? AND like the comment above states, Tulane did not pay one penny of that tuition.

re: 4:12

Perhaps the Tulane students who got shafted as you describe would be better able to articulate a cause of action. . .

I still don't see the bitch though, its not like any of the diploma's came with the NOAA Hurricane symbol on them as an asterisk to make sure everyone knows the hurricane screwed with them. It still says "TULANE" or "LOYOLA" doesn't it?

4:12 - Even if everything you say is true, it would be the schools who took in the students for free that might have a cause of action against Loyola/Tulane for unjust enrichment, not the students. The students got just what they agreed to pay for--a JD from Loyola/Tulane.

weird that his 7 attorney firm lists essentially every possible practice area

4:12, your "explanation" also falls short of holding any water as a legal claim. If you haven't suffered any injury, you have no standing.

Do any Loyola students actually like their school?

Look. The jerk off paid Loyola tuition even though the school was damaged by the hurricanes. SMU gave the displaced students the units they needed to graduate. Who knows what the financial arrangement between SMU and Loyola was. Maybe SMU said fuck it, Loyola needs the money more than we do. The student has no right to complain that Loyola was unjustly enriched for keeping money even if they didn't provide classes or professors, that's a deal that SMU and Loyola worked out. So this greedy ass student should shut his f'n pie hole. He has NO cause of action. If he wasn't so stupid, he'd realize it.

Read his bio (emphasis added): "He LEAD his team to the semi-finals in competitions in Texas and Louisiana."

Can't even get simple grammar right. What a TTT firm.

Tier talk is tired and if there is anyone out there that knows the La. market they would know that tiers don't matter. It's LSU, Tulane, Loyola, then anywhere else, in that order.

4:12--

Did the schools stop paying professors and staff? Where did the money go? If this was such a crime by the schools, what happened to those tuition payments? I'm asking this for real, not as an accusation, if you have any info. I would find it hard to believe, though, that a law school could just pocket that kind of cash without raising a stink with more than just the student body.

hey, its true the schools make huge amounts of money off of this. the loan companies make huge amounts of money and now all these students will have to pay all the interest, even though they were really receiving free tuition from the other schools. there were plenty of students that went to places like lsu, which is nowhere near the price!!!

hey, its true the schools make huge amounts of money off of this. the loan companies make huge amounts of money and now all these students will have to pay all the interest, even though they were really receiving free tuition from the other schools. there were plenty of students that went to places like lsu, which is nowhere near the price!!!

LoyolaGradGirl:

Evidence for statement "its [sic] true the schools make huge amounts of money off of this"?

What do the loan companies have anything to do with it? They are loan companies, not law schools.

Justify wild opinions, please.

People lost jobs, homes and family. Students got to study at another school. Sure it wasn't fun or easy. But neither was Katrina.

We should be supporting our schools, which are the backbone of the city, not suing them with frivolous litigation.

"Tier talk is tired and if there is anyone out there that knows the La. market they would know that tiers don't matter. It's LSU, Tulane, Loyola, then anywhere else, in that order."

Is actually incorrect

LSU is best if you're looking for BR on west; Loyola and Tulane are both very competitive in the NOLA market with many Tulane people losing out on jobs because of a lack of connection to NOLA. Then everywhere else. This coming from someone who was from somewhere else.

He doesn't work for that firm anymore, so you can email him all you want there. I know Brian B personally, and there are 2 things you can say about him:

1) He's an EPIC douche bag. I mean massive levels of douch baggery.

2) He's a really good attorney already, from people I've talked to. Kid is going to be good.

Brian Branch??

I can't stand that guy. He thinks he's so cool with his dress shirts with a little whale on them. Forget that guy.

Does anyone posting comments about me have a job? Go back to work and quit worrying about my lawsuit!

WHAT? I eat lawsuits like this for breakfast, lunch and dinner. And yeah, I pop my collar.

Keep talking trash about me and I'll sue you too!

He is sue happy. He tried to sue me for giving him a little case of herpes.

Candi, I thought I paid you enough not to go public with said information? This breach entitles me to free lap dances.

Do you haters feel big and smart when you post snarky comments on ATL pretending to be Biglaw associates? Enjoy your future careers in asbestos defense.

If you're unlucky enough to have to face him in court, Branch will leave you wondering what fell on you. N'awlins represent, YA HERD ME DAWG!

I wish I was cool enough to drive a Jag like Brian Branch.

That guy is soooooo cool. I think he's still trying to sell his house, if anyone is interested.