Things change. Change sometimes causes inconvenience and disappointment for those not parties to the change and distant from it. Those minor results do not give rise to causes of action.
— The defunct Texas Wesleyan University School of Law, in a brief in support of a motion to dismiss filed in response to a proposed class-action suit brought by the school’s own alumni. Texas A&M seized control of Texas Wesleyan in 2013, and the plaintiffs claim that Texas A&M has disavowed them and refused to reissue diplomas to them bearing the law school’s new name.
(Flip to the next page to see Texas Wesleyan Law’s brief in full.)