SETTLEMENT: KEITH MUMPHERY Who Has Always Been Innocent Settles with MSU
A former NFL player has settled a lawsuit against Michigan State University alleging his rights were violated when he was expelled after a sexual misconduct investigation. Court records show the Mumphery settlement was reached this month in a session attended by Mumphery and Brian Quinn, the acting general counsel for MSU.
Mumphery wasn’t charged with a crime, but said he had been essentially blackballed from the NFL after the Detroit Free Press in 2017 published an article exposing his dismissal from MSU the year before because of an alleged sexual assault. The wide receiver was cut by the Houston Texans in 2017. Mumphery’s federal lawsuit was filed in May 2018 claiming that Michigan State acted against Mumphery to “appease” a female student, despite inconsistencies about what happened between them in 2015. The lawsuit also claimed Mumphery’s expulsion has left him unable to complete his graduate degree in communications, costing him a job outside professional football…Terms of the settlement were not disclosed in court records. The expectation is Mumphery will play in the NFL again.
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