A federal judge has dismissed a Pennsylvania prep school from a lawsuit alleging it breached its contract with a Pennsylvania man aiming to boost his academic credentials to get into college by not rendering the educational services it promised in an enrollment agreement.
Plaintiff Daniel Ochman, along with his parents, sued the Wyoming Seminary preparatory school in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, invoking diversity of jurisdiction. But the court dismissed the breach of contract claim because it was clear, as a matter of law, that the lawsuit would not reach the $75,000 amount in controversy required for federal jurisdiction.
