JUDGE RULES OhioSU TitleIX Official Can be Personally Liable for Helping Girl Accuser Lie.
A year and a half after a federal judge let a due-process lawsuit continue against Ohio State University officials, one of them may face personal ruin for her decisions during a Title IX proceeding. “A reasonable jury could find that Natalie Spiert,” sexual violence support coordinator and advocate for “Jane Roe” during the proceeding, “knew or should have known that Jane Roe lied or misled the disciplinary board” and did not correct the record, U.S. District Judge James Graham ruled. A reasonable jury could find that Jane Roe lied when she said the academic committee had already decided to permit her to repeat the first year of medical school for the third time and that she had nothing to gain by reporting the assault and no motive to lie…Roe blamed her academic failure on the alleged rape and told the committee she would “officially” report the incident if they let her continue in medical school.
thecollegefix.com By Greg Piper
