Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ revisions to Obama-era guidance on campus sexual assault will likely stand now that a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging them. U.S. Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Corley said plaintiffs SurvJustice and two other victims’ rights groups did not do enough to demonstrate that those directly affected by the U.S. Department of Education’s 2017 policy revision couldn’t have filed lawsuits on their own behalf. “Defendants argue that plaintiffs’ asserted hindrances are insufficient to invoke third-party standing because it is possible for the third party to raise the equal protection claim themselves, and there is evidence that third parties in fact have raised such claims,” Corley wrote in a 17-page decision. “The court agrees.” courthousenews– Matthew Renda
Read the recent Atlanta Journal-Constitution article discussing DeVos’ proposed changes in how colleges investigate assault. ” Jill Cartwright and Joseph Roberts both had encounters with sexual misconduct while they were students at colleges in Georgia. One made an accusation; the other was accused. Their experiences, from separate ends of the process, left both scared and thinking that the way schools investigate such claims is broken.”
