MULTIPLE JUDGES Keep Rebuking Purdue For Title IX Kangaroo Courts.
Last year the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Purdue University had put an accused student through a “fundamentally unfair” Title IX proceeding. It didn’t review the investigative report before finding him guilty of sexual assault. It hid the report from him. It didn’t require his accuser to submit testimony or attend the adjudication hearing, much less submit to cross-examination. It ignored his accuser’s ulterior motive for accusing him.
The public university led by Mitch Daniels, the former Indiana governor and longed-for presidential candidate, doesn’t appear to have learned anything from that ruling. A federal judge has rebuked the taxpayer-funded institution for claiming she has no jurisdiction over a Title IX due process lawsuit by another accused student, and allowed all but one of the student’s claims to go forward.
As in the 7th Circuit ruling, Purdue’s conduct was so outrageous that U.S. District Judge Theresa Springmann didn’t even have to reach the question of whether “John Doe” has a constitutional right to cross-examine witnesses. His procedural claims were enough to survive the university’s motion to dismiss.
thecollegefix-Greg Piper
