JOHN DOE Sues St. Mary’s College of Maryland. It’s a ‘Quasi-Judicial System-Violates own Policy’
According to the lawsuit, neither John Doe or Jane Roe were intoxicated during their interactions and Jane did not stay the night at John’s place. The two left together after their intimate encounter. But four months later, on January 22, 2018, John Doe was visited by Campus Police who hand delivered a document entitled Notice of Investigation. Prior to this visit John was completely unaware of any complaint or any College administrative investigation concerning him. The College’s Procedures require the Title IX Coordinator and the Investigator to be separate persons, but Michael Dunn disregarded that and served in the roles of TitleIX Coordinator, investigator, and judge and jury in a clear violation of the College’s Procedures…Throughout the disciplinary process, the College treated John unfairly because of his sex, including, among other things, by failing to give him basic due process protections such as the right to confront his accuser, to receive copies of relevant evidence, and to present witnesses and other evidence on his own behalf; and by conducting an inadequate, unreliable, and biased investigation of the complaint against him. ‘The facts of this matter, and the actions of the Defendant in this matter, are evidence of administrative quasi-judicial system at a public college, so poorly conceived and illegally administered, and so grievously flawed that it rises to the level of a blatant, systemic and actionable violation of the Plaintiff’s civil rights.’
