CONFIDENTIAL SETTLEMENT for John Doe. TitleIX Arbiter said Males Like Being Violated
Marymount University saw the writing on the wall in March, when a federal judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit by a student it suspended for two years for alleged sexual assault. It reached a confidential settlement last week with “John Doe,” who also reached a confidential settlement with his accuser and defendant “Jane Roe.” The University was looking at a very unpleasant trial scenario, based on Judge T.S. Ellis’s findings against it. Roe herself made “physically impossible” claims about Doe inserting his “entire fist” in her vagina while she was standing, and the college accepted her “purportedly implausible allegations” over the accounts of “neutral witnesses,” Ellis said. Doe claims they never even touched each other’s genitals. Doe raised credible evidence that Prof. Donald Lavanty, the Title IX adjudicator, held “certain gendered beliefs” against men in sexual-misconduct disputes, suggesting they “always enjoy sexual contact even when that contact is not consensual.” While we have no idea what Marymount paid Doe to make him go away, the fact that Ellis condemned the school’s practices so thoroughly – in a federal appellate circuit that requires accused students to surmount high hurdles – suggests the university wanted to avoid trial at all costs.
thecollegefix.com Greg Piper
