SUSPENDED Medical Student Denied Hearing. Sues Uof Minnesota For “Pre-Emptively Convicting” Him.
A medical student is suing the University of Minnesota for failing to provide a speedy hearing five months after suspending him for alleged sexual misconduct. Mehdijaffer Mulla says administrators from the medical school informed him in November that they’d received a complaint about him. The school immediately suspended him, without telling him the nature of the allegations or the individuals accusing him, then e-mailed the student body soliciting other allegations, which served to “pre-emptively convict Mr. Mulla in the court of public opinion.”
“Mr. Mulla was improperly suspended from the University of Minnesota and has been deprived of higher education and his contractual rights without due process or equal protection of the law,” according to the civil complaint. “Mr. Mulla was greatly damaged by being falsely cast as a stalker, a very public stigma he will never be able to escape.”
Mulla is still under suspension and his request to address the allegations in a hearing at the college has been denied. He is asking to be reinstated to the medical school with a clean disciplinary record plus compensatory damages. He says he’s lost student health insurance and housing-related financial aid and suffered emotional distress.
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