( August 13, 2026, 1:13 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — In a student’s putative class action seeking reimbursement for tuition for when Syracuse University transitioned to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals certified to the New York Court of Appeals a question regarding whether New York law requires that a university make a “specific” promise to provide “exclusively” in-person instruction in order to form an implied contract, finding that the split between federal and state courts on the application of New York contract law to COVID transitions to remote learning implicates important state interests....