Class Suits Against Shuttered Law School Consolidated

By Perry Cooper, Bloomberg BNA

Class actions alleging now-defunct Charlotte School of Law defrauded students by misrepresenting its accreditation status will be combined for pretrial purposes, a federal court said.

“It is hard to imagine a group of cases where consolidation of merits discovery would be more appropriate than the actions herein,” Judge Graham C. Mullen wrote for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina.

“All of the actions share substantially overlapping parties, facts, claims, and legal issues,” he said Oct. 13.

The former students alleged the for-profit law school misrepresented its American Bar Association accreditation ...