Background on Mumphery’s lawsuit that is being settled: The lawsuit stated he completely cooperated with police, while the woman did not. It also claimed that the MSU investigator looking into the case cleared Mumphery, but the university had a predetermined outcome it wanted. “The Defendants believed that the easiest way to accomplish this was to ignore the due process rights of Plaintiff (who had graduated from Michigan State and was training in Florida) by repeatedly and systematically failing to give him notice of the appeal and subsequent renewed investigation,” Mumphery’s lawsuit said. MSU then kicked Mumphery off campus and barred him from coming back until 2019. The lawsuit noted the Detroit Free Press wrote an article on May 31, 2017, revealing the expulsion, and that led to Mumphery being cut from the Houston Texans football team.
“As a result of these due process violations, Plaintiff continues to suffer ongoing harm, including damages to his reputation, permanent loss of employment opportunities, and other economic and non-economic damages,” the 55-page lawsuit says. “In particular, the discipline imposed by Michigan State has permanently damaged his career prospects in his chosen profession, denied him the benefits of education at his chosen school after his career as a professional athlete is completed thereby damaging the post-athletic career he intended to pursue after his professional football career, and damaged Plaintiff’s academic and professional reputation.”…..My heart goes out to Keith Mumphery. He graduated, he’s innocent and his NFL career should never have faltered. I blame the junk science of ‘believe accuser’ and the Title IX extreme feminists who target college males out of revenge and spite. My love and prayers are for innocent Keith. #blessings. -Alice
