Appeals Court Sides with SMU in Legal Fight over Athletic Scholarship

A Texas state appeals court has affirmed a trial court’s ruling that the claim of a student and her father that Southern Methodist University (SMU) defrauded the student when it allegedly failed to follow through on a verbal offer of an athletic scholarship was barred by the statute of frauds, Tex. Bus. & Com. Code Ann. § 26.01.   The panel of judges reasoned that the agreement “was made in her sophomore year and could not be performed until she graduated from high school.”   Pl