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CHRISTIAN STUDENT Regrets Sex Experiences, Accuses Male Of Assault. School Uses ‘Trauma-Informed’ Training To Find Him Guilty.
Two Syracuse University Christian students, each struggling with their sexual desires and faith, engage in sexual activity on three separate occasions. Each occasion proceeds the same way, yet the woman would later claim – after a professor suggest she do so – that the final encounter was sexual assault. Her story would then change and […]
BOSTON COLLEGE: Male’s Title IX Lawsuit Goes To Discovery
The lawsuit brought by a Boston College student-athlete against the University entered into discovery in U.S. District Court earlier this month. The schedule postpones the certification of any legal questions to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court until after Judge Douglas P. Woodlock makes a summary judgment on the merits of the case over the summer. Each […]
COLLEGE DUE PROCESS Issues Addressed By Oklahoma Legislation
College students facing potential expulsion would be guaranteed due-process rights comparable to those provided in a court proceeding under legislation approved by a state Senate committee. Senate Bill 1466, by Sen. Julie Daniels, creates the “Student and Administration Equality Act.” Under the legislation, any college student accused of a violation of the school’s disciplinary or […]
SETTLEMENT. VA Tech In Trouble w/Court Settles With Accused Male.
College settlements with the wrongly accused take place more than you know. But 95% of the time settlement terms demand confidentiality, and insist that counsel remain silent. Luckily this is not the situation with Virginia Polytechnic Institute. For those interested in reading more about Virginia Polytechnic, here are two separate lawsuits filed by accused males, […]
FEMALE VIOLENCE is Reputation Destruction. Accusers Use ‘Street Justice’ to Harass TIX Accused Males Before Verdict. Their Lawyers Are Fighting Back.
When colleges adjudicate sexual misconduct claims, some accusing students can’t wait for a verdict to be handed down. They take extrajudicial action by publicly labeling accused students as rapists, potentially ruining those students’ reputations even if they are eventually acquitted. Lawyers for accused students have a response to this “troubling trend” of “street justice” in […]
RULING: Judge Approves Male’s Suit Claiming Carleton College Ignored Exculpatory Evidence In TIX Case
A federal judge recommended an expelled student’s lawsuit proceed against his college on claims of negligence in its sexual assault investigation of him. In a “report and recommendation” issued to U.S. District Judge Michael Davis last week, U.S. Magistrate Judge Leo Brisbois found that Taariq Vanegas had “plausibly alleged” that Carleton College had “breached its […]
BENEFITS OF Hiring A Title IX Lawyer Quickly
If you or your child has been accused of sexual misconduct in a university or college Title IX disciplinary proceeding, you face a critical and complex process in defending the charges. The potential negative consequences are severe. Sanctions can include suspension or expulsion from school and a finding of liability may be noted on your transcript. […]
UofKANSAS Female Is Charged With Making False Rape Claim Against Male. Regrettably Charges Are Dismissed.
A county in Kansas last year dropped charges against three women suspected of filing false rape accusations. The county’s response was not to make it less palatable for someone to file a false accusation, but to actually make it easier to file such a claim. A University of Kansas female student told police she had been […]
SETTLEMENT. CUBOULDER Settles Due Process Case With Falsely Accused Male
Full text of the MTD opinion that led to the settlement is below. Particularly interesting opinion on what could constitute gender bias in a Title IX adjudication. kcjohnson.files.wordpress.conorris-v.-colorado-mtd.pdf
LAWMAKER Opposed To Title IX Reform Peddles False Information About What Trump Rules Would Do
Opposing proposed federal regulations because they contradict your values is fine. Creating a straw man so you can gin up opposition to those regulations is not. Rep. Elissa Slotkin is doing the latter as the Department of Education plans to publish its final Title IX regulations on campus sexual misconduct procedures. The Michigan Democrat, whose […]
UCONN and John Doe. When Fairness Is A “Compromise”
How nice of UConn to “compromise” by giving the male student a chance to defend himself. To call it a “compromise” is somewhat inaccurate. UConn settled a case by agreeing to do what it failed to do and should have done in the first place. That it only agreed to do so after District Judge […]
UCONN IN A Compromise, Will Give Male It Suspended In Sex Misconduct Case A Chance To Defend Himself
UConn has agreed to give a second hearing to a student whose claim in a federal suit that he was wrongly accused and suspended for an alleged sexual assault had the potential to put the school’s system for investigating and punishing sexual misconduct on trial. The agreement comes as colleges and universities are under scrutiny […]
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NEW STUDY Shows #MeToo Is Now a Convoluted Catch-22
A new workplace study, soon to be published in the journal Organizational Dynamics, finds that following the #MeToo movement, relationships between men and women have shifted considerably. The study essentially concluded that men are reluctant to interact with their female colleagues at work for fear of retribution, even if undeserved. This was predictable, yet some are […]
FALSE COLLEGE Rape Allegation ‘Destroyed’ My Life: Suit
A Long Island woman’s unsubstantiated rape allegation after a drunken night in an upstate frat house has “destroyed” a New Jersey man’s life, he says in a $6 million lawsuit. Catherine Reddington claimed on social media that Alex Goldman assaulted her at Syracuse University following a party in April 2017. The two engineering majors woke up […]
Must Reads
HUGE WIN For Doe! 3rd Circuit Issues Pathbreaking Opinion Against USciences. New Title IX Regs in Sex Cases Upheld
On late Friday afternoon, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued a pathbreaking opinion affirming the critical importance of due process in campus sexual-misconduct proceedings, even for students at private universities. In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel held that if a private university promises students a fair process in sexual-misconduct cases, it must […]
BIG GREAT WIN For USC Kicker Matthew Boermeester! Matt Wins in Court of Appeal
On May 28, 2020, the California Court of Appeal reversed the trial court decision of Judge Amy D. Hogue and set aside USC’s expulsion of former Trojan kicker Matthew Boermeester, who kicked the game-winning 46-yard field goal in the final second of the 2017 Rose Bowl to give USC a 52-49 victory over Penn State. […]