The Board of Regents will probably not turn over records requested by a Baltimore attorney representing four University of Maryland at Baltimore graduate students who successfully sued the system for in-state status, without a court mandate. Anthony Conti, the attorney, said he plans to ask the system to release all denial letters for students turned down for in-state tuition at all system campuses since 2000. He has also asked the court for permission to contact students denied in-state status to invite them to join a possible class-action suit.
Assistant Attorney General Dawna Cobb said turning over the records would be extremely laborious for the system schools.
“Can you imagine going to 11 campuses and pulling the files of thousands of students and copying them when they aren’t even part of the class yet?” she said. “That’s something I wouldn’t ask the university to undertake without a ruling on the scope of discovery and class-action status.”
A Baltimore circuit court must decide whether more students, other than the four plaintiffs in the original case, may enter a class action suit.
– Compiled by senior staff writer Kate Campbell.
