MULTIPLE LAWSUITS: Michigan State Shows Bias, Treats Their Male Students as Guilty.
More than three years of missteps in handling sexual assault cases has made Michigan State University swing the pendulum from not believing accusers to now discriminating against accused male students, three lawsuits allege. The suits allege the male students involved were found “guilty” by the administrative investigative system simply because they were male. The suits go on to allege the university has deprived those students of their due process rights by not allowing them a live hearing with the chance to cross-examine their accusers as mandated by the federal 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in a ruling last year. “All three cases have a common thread,” said attorney Andrew Miltenberg, who represents the men in all three cases. The cases are:
- The Keith Mumphery case. Mumphery was initially found not to have violated the policy in a sexual encounter with a female student. However, the federal Office for Civil Rights mandated the case be reopened and, a year after the incident, MSU reversed its decision and found consent was not given.
- On Dec. 20, a male student filed a suit over an incident that took place when he was a sophomore at MSU. The suit alleges the investigator was a former sex crimes prosecutor and was biased against the male student and approached the case as a prosecutor, not as an impartial fact-finder.
- On Dec. 26, a male student filed a similar case. The student was in his sophomore year at the time of the incident at the end of August 2017. The complaint centered on a male and female student who lived on the same floor.
freep.com By David Jesse
