The California State University and the University of California systems have been hit with class actions on behalf of students who claim the schools have profited off of the COVID-19 pandemic by denying requests to refund certain fees after campus closures.

The two suits, filed by plaintiffs attorneys Monday from Cowper Law in Los Angeles; DiCello Levitt Gutzler in Chicago; and Matthew S. Miller LLC in Chicago, follow a string of complaints filed by plaintiffs lawyers seeking disgorgement for unpaid refunds as states ordered nonessential businesses to shut down to prevent the spread of coronavirus.