What To Do When A Law School Doesn't Want You? File A Lawsuit About It!
The plaintiffs in this lawsuit certainly seem pretty whiny.
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.)
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