Favoring Mount Ida, Judge Says Colleges Owe Students Little

A federal judge late last week threw out a lawsuit in which a group of former students alleged that the recently shuttered Mount Ida College and its former officials had breached their contracts with and fiduciary duty to the students by failing to disclose information about its troubled financial situation. But the judge, Richard G. Stearns, dismissed the students' claims because, essentially, the college had little to no obligation to the students.