Johnson & Wales University is fighting to keep $46,909 in tuition paid by a Connecticut couple for their daughter’s education against the demands of a bankruptcy court-official, who sued to get that money back.
The private, Rhode Island-based college has asked a bankruptcy judge to throw out the lawsuit that arose when Robert and Jean DeMauro filed for bankruptcy last year. A bankruptcy trustee who examined the DeMauros’ finances argued that the couple didn’t get any benefit from the tuition payments made from March 2011 to December 2013—their daughter did.
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