Legal Question in Employment Law in New York

Under contract law with a written guarantee of a grade of A, you might be able to convince a really, REALLY dimwitted judge that you are entitled to a refund. Most judges are much smarter than that.

There is a doctrine in the law called the "clean hands" doctrine. This doctrine says that if you want the help of the courts, you cannot have participated in wrongdoing related to your claim. You don't meet that standard. By paying someone else to write a paper for you, you cheated. That dirties your hands for the purposes of the court, and that denies you any court-ordered refund. The professor noticed that you did not write the paper (ghosted papers are not hard to notice; they stand out like sore thumbs). Any judge with even a mote of intelligence would rule, "Too bad, so sad. Case dismissed."

Consider the F to be an expensive lesson: paying someone else to do your schoolwork does not work well. Do your own.

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