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Law School Kicked Out Of Building Due To Alleged Failure To Pay Rent

Behold, a hypothetical for students who won't be able to take a Property class at Arizona Summit this fall.

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Last week, students at the troubled Arizona Summit Law School found out that the school would not be holding any classes during the Fall 2018 semester as it attempts to appeal the ABA’s decision to revoke its accreditation. In the late-night email students received with the bad news, they were told that the law school’s library would be “unavailable.” Why wouldn’t Arizona Summit allow its understandably cheerless remaining law students to use the library at the school they once called home? We now have an idea thanks to some of our tireless tipsters. As it turns out, students won’t be able to use any part of Arizona Summit’s former offerings — at all.

Earlier this month, a source disclosed to us that Arizona Summit had stopped paying the rent, and that the administration was secretly moving out of the building. The administration didn’t tell students that the building would be closing, so students showed up repeatedly to find locked doors at the entrance. Yesterday, a student arrived at Arizona Summit’s former campus to find this notice posted in the elevator:

The notice references Arizona Revised Statutes § 33-361 and § 33-362, which both have to do with violations of the lease by the tenant, specifically, a tenant’s failure to pay rent, and the landlord’s remedies, including the right to reenter and take possession of the premises. Behold, a hypothetical for students who won’t be able to take a Property class at Arizona Summit this fall.

Stop stringing your remaining students along. If you recall, students at Charlotte Law, another InfiLaw school, were placed between a rock and a hard place thanks to the school’s numerous delays and self-serving games before it was forced to close. For Arizona Summit to say it won’t be closing, and then allowing the school to essentially be evicted, does not speak well of the administration’s intentions. The longer Arizona Summit refuses to officially close, the smaller these students’ chances of getting a closed-school discharge on their loans becomes. (Students who are completing their law degrees at another school will not be eligible for such a discharge unless they choose not to use their credits from AZ Summit towards their degrees, or unless their new law school won’t accept their credits from AZ Summit.)

As far as Arizona Summit is concerned, the law library isn’t the only thing that’s “unavailable” — it seems that phrasing also applies to the administration’s morals and sense of decency. Please tell your students the truth. This isn’t funny anymore.

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Staci ZaretskyStaci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.

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