Grand Canyon University and the Department of Education will have to wait for the next stage of their long-simmering legal dispute over the school's nonprofit status.
Oral arguments before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit had been scheduled for Dec. 5 in San Francisco, but the hearing was delayed after GCU's outside counsel suffered a significant leg injury. The oral arguments are now set to be "reset by further order of the court after consultation with counsel by the Clerk of the Court," according to a Nov. 28 filing.
GCU requested a 45-day continuance in the case after its lead outside counsel, Steven Gombos, suffered a "significant injury to his leg" in early November that left him hospitalized for multiple days, according to an unopposed Nov. 20 motion for continuance.
