THIS IS EXCELLENT. Announcing The Campus Due Process Litigation Tracker!
Many lawyers and journalists use a spreadsheet maintained by Brooklyn College Prof. KC Johnson and due process advocate Samantha Harris to keep track of lawsuits filed by students accused of sexual misconduct. Now Harris’s organization, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, has launched an even more comprehensive resource to keep tabs on litigation involving due process in every kind of campus disciplinary proceeding.
The Campus Due Process Litigation Tracker is searchable by school type, state, federal appeals court and several other categories, including judicial decisions “primarily favorable” to either college or student, stage of litigation and common keywords (“cross-examination,” “basic fairness,” etc.). It includes “summaries of cases affecting students’ and faculty members’ rights in campus judicial proceedings” and will be continually updated with both newly decided and older cases. A spokesperson for FIRE said that it debuted the tracker “in preparation for any Title IX updates” from the Department of Education, which is expected to announce new regulations for campus sexual misconduct proceedings this fall…The spokesperson clarified that the tracker goes beyond Title IX: “It will include decisions that impact students’ procedural rights in campus judicial proceedings, whether the decision is made in the context of a due process claim, a breach of contract claim, a Title IX claim, etc.”
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