JMU: DUE Process Wins a Battle Against Univ. Kangaroo Kourt

January 9, 2017

Judge Elizabeth Dillon proved that some campus procedures are just too outrageous to survive judicial review. The judge’s due process ruling came in a case out of James Madison University. The case illustrates the effects of an often-overlooked effect of the 2011 Dear Colleague letter-the requirement that colleges allow accusers to appeal not-guilty findings…this double-jeopardy principle creates an additional layer of injustice. “No reasonable jury,” [Judge Dillon] concluded, “could find the accused student was given fundamentally fair process. Instead, the undisputed facts show that JMU denied him a ‘meaningful hearing.’”

www.mindingthecampus.org By KC Johnson