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GOOD: Federal Judge Allows Clark Student’s Lawsuit To Continue In Sex Exploitation Case
A federal judge has allowed a Clark student’s lawsuit against a female student who allegedly accused him of sexual assault to continue. John Doe, who was a freshman at Clark last year, filed his lawsuit against his accuser, Jane Smith, as well as the university and several of its employees in U.S. District Court in […]
A MOCKERY Of Justice at the University of New Mexico
It began, unlike most epic love stories featuring two cosmically intertwined souls rediscovering their connection from some past life, in the printer room of the University of New Mexico’s Anderson School of Management. It ended with a graduate student attempting to blackmail a professor into continuing their flirtatious banter, a sexual harassment investigation that treated […]
SHE ACCUSED Him Of Sex Assault After They Broke Up. He Was Punished, But FairfieldU Just Settled With Him.
A male Fairfield University student was effectively expelled from the school after a female student made conflicting sexual assault claims against him after the two broke up. Background: John was preparing to graduate and go on to a graduate program when he and Jane started a physical relationship. Previously, Jane had invited John to sleep […]
SADDLEBACK PLANS To Appeal Ruling Favorable To Autistic Student Punished For Giving Fist Bumps
Saddleback College plans to appeal a recent judge’s decision that required the school to remove sexual misconduct marks from an autistic student’s record. Toni Airaksinen, who has followed the case of the student, Marcus Knight, reported on Twitter last week that a spokesperson for Saddleback told her the school plans to “appeal” the decision. “UPDATE: […]
TITLE IX Training Undermines Due Process. ‘At Odds With The Available Science’
As due process advocates and lawyers for accused students challenge the investigative practices in campus sexual misconduct investigations, scientific researchers are questioning the neurobiological claims in training programs for Title IX officials. Iowa State University researchers, including a top Title IX official, concluded that some “trauma-informed” interview techniques taught to administrators with Title IX duties […]
COLLEGES BRISTLE As Judges, DeVos Push Protections (Or as SOS Calls It, Due Process) For The Accused
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ proposed Title IX regulations, which are due to be issued in final form early next year, seek to require colleges that adjudicate claims of sexual assault against their students using some of the same procedures to ensure fairness that have long been treated as fundamental by courts. The most important provisions […]
LAWSUIT: SYRACUSE U Has Ejected 40 Students. This Male Is Suing. SU’s TitleIX Investigation Is “Inadequate And Biased.”
John Doe filed a federal lawsuit against Syracuse University and four administrators claiming the university led an “inadequate and biased” Title IX investigation of a sexual assault complaint that led to his expulsion. Doe said the investigation failed to meet the standards of the U.S. Constitution, federal and state laws and SU’s Code of Student […]
BOSTON COLLEGE Ruling Highlights Lack of Rights at Private Universities
Last week, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit reversed a lower court’s decision to preliminarily enjoin Boston College from suspending a student found responsible for sexual misconduct. In its decision, the panel took the district court to task for, in its view, using a public university due process decision to […]
BOSTON COLLEGE Student-Athlete Requests Jury Trial Over Suspension
The Boston College student-athlete whose initial suspension was overturned by a judge in August is now requesting a jury trial against the University. “John Doe,” is bringing a suit against the College in which he alleges that investigators erred in finding him responsible for engaging in a non-consensual sexual encounter with “Jane Roe.” The investigative report didn’t conclude that […]
RULING: Selective Enforcement & TitleIX in Harnois v. UMass at Dartmouth
Over eight years after the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights’ [“OCR”] issued its April 4, 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter on campus sexual assaults, the torrent of lawsuits continues, filed primarily by male students who claim they were unjustly disciplined in adjudicatory processes that were prosecuted ineptly or in bad faith. As this body […]
BIG WIN! Male Student Gets Trial on Fairness of Johnson & Wales Sex Assault Hearing
This year has featured a number of important breach of contract victories for accused students in New England. An accused student from Boston College prevailed in the first post-Dear Colleague letter jury trial, in September. In a detailed ruling, Judge Alfred Covello denied summary judgment to Yale in the Jack Montague case, prompting the university to settle. […]
GREAT NEWS. Marcus Knight Prevails Against Saddleback College. Clears Name After Frivolous Allegations
Marcus Knight—a student with autism, cerebral palsy, and learning disabilities—has prevailed in his lawsuit against Saddleback College. After being accused of sexual misconduct, Knight filed the lawsuit to clear his name. Knight first came to national attention in 2018 after his attempts to make friends landed him in his college’s office for sexual misconduct (also known as a […]
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Save Our Sons Exclusives
FOUR COLLEGES SETTLE ln One Week. UnivMiami. NorthernMichU. CU Boulder. Cal Berkeley.
Kangaroo courts are alive and kicking on campuses through out America. Thank goodness there are courageous families, and their lawyers, who mount a legal due process fight against the unconstitutional actions of Title IX’s Kangaroo courts. Often years later, a college will settle on the eve of a court matter. Here are four that settled.
INNOCENCE LOST: Which Constitutional Right is Most at Risk?
In a quiet moment, the idea of taking a highly scientific poll on the twitters seemed like a good idea. So I did. My question, Which Constitutional Right is Most at Risk? 52% said the Presumption of Innocence. Not only do people no longer subscribe to the principle that people are presumed innocent until proven […]
Must Reads
BIG VICTORY! Ed Dept. Issues New Title IX Regs With Crucial Campus Due Process Protections
Advocates for free speech and due process on campus won one of their biggest-ever victories today with the finalization of long-awaited new Department of Education Title IX regulations. The regulations guarantee critical due process protections that Americans recognize as essential to securing justice, but that have for too long been denied to students accused of sexual misconduct […]
5.6.2020 IS A GREAT DAY For Due Process. U.S. Ed. Dept. Releases Final Title IX Rules
The U.S. Department of Education today released its Final Rule under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs or activities receiving federal financial assistance. In addition to posting the unofficial version of the Final Rule, the Department is releasing a Final Rule overview, […]