A federal judge permanently dismissed a 5-year lawsuit brought by a Tisch parent and graduate who were requesting tuition refunds because classes moved online for the COVID-19 pandemic. The graduate, who attempted to lead a class-action case against the university, had allegedly based their case on inaccurate and misleading claims. The lawsuit followed an initial complaint filed by Tisch parent Christina Rynasko in April 2020, who claimed NYU unjustly withheld tuition refunds after the school shut down in-person attendance. The university refuted that while it still charged its regular tuition, it refunded students for housing, dining and select course-specific fees. The court initially found plausibility in Hall-Landers’s claim that the university breached a contractual agreement by not refunding all tuition.