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Related: About this forumLawsuit: In 'chilling' retaliation, university expelled women who reported sexual assaults
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. In a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday, two former students claim they were expelled from Purdue University after the school couldnt find enough evidence in their sexual assault reports.
The suit, filed under the pseudonyms of Mary Doe and Nancy Roe, claims that Purdue is working under a policy either written or unwritten in which women who cannot prove their claims to the satisfaction of Purdue decision-makers face discipline up to expulsion.
The women initially were expelled from Purdue, with their discipline reduced to two-year suspensions.
The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court in Indianas Northern District, names Purdue, along with Katie Sermersheim Purdues dean of students, and Alyssa Rollock vice president for ethics and compliance at the university.
Read more: https://www.ithacajournal.com/story/news/nation/2018/11/15/purdue-accused-retaliation-sex-assault-reports/2020246002/
safeinOhio
(34,208 posts)In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
ProfessorPlum
(11,385 posts)Nitram
(24,654 posts)That would only make sense if there was proof that the women's claims were fraudulent.