Welcome to the Qureshi, et al. v. American University Class Action Website.
Your legal rights are affected whether you act or don’t act. Read this website and the Notice carefully.
On May 1, 2020, a class action Complaint was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Case No. 1:20-cv-01141-CRC, against American University (“AU”).
The lawsuit alleges that students who attended AU during the Spring 2020 Semester are entitled to partial refunds of tuition and fees because AU transitioned to remote instruction in March 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic in accordance with legal mandates. AU denies each and every allegation of wrongdoing, liability, and damages asserted via the claims in the lawsuit, and AU denies that the claims in the lawsuit would be appropriate for class treatment if the litigation proceeded through trial.
The proposed settlement is not an admission of wrongdoing by AU, and AU denies all allegations of wrongdoing and disclaims all liability with regard to all claims in the lawsuit.
You are a member of the Settlement Class if you were an AU undergraduate student enrolled during the Spring 2020 Semester for whom any amount of tuition and fees were paid from any source other than a scholarship/grant from AU whose tuition and fees have not been refunded in their entirety and who is not excluded from the Settlement Class.
These rights and options—and the deadlines to exercise them—are explained further in the Notice and on the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) page of this website. For complete details, please see the Settlement Agreement, which is available here.