CHATTANOOGA (AP) - In a legal fight surrounded by unusual secrecy, a former student at Sewanee: The University of the South contends the university wrongly forced him to leave after a female student falsely accused him of rape.
A federal judge at a hearing Monday in Chattanooga set a July 28 jury trial on the suit that seeks at least $1 million in compensatory damages from the private, Episcopal-affiliated campus in southeastern Tennessee.
The former student was never criminally charged. The victim claimed she had been raped in his dorm room.
The suit contends the university has harmed his reputation and career prospects by improperly deciding he violated its sexual assault policy early in the fall 2008 semester.
Identified only as John Doe in court records, the suit contends it was consensual sex. All attorneys declined comment.
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http://www.wate.com/story/15063104/former-sewanee-student-suing-school-after-false-rape-accusations
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Interesting case and good for him!
1) She made an allegation.
2) He denied her allegation.
3) The University kicked him out.
4) It appears that there is no evidence.
Assuming that no evidence exists to prove her allegation how can the University defend its actions? Can the University try to use the US Department of Education's new guidelines for rape allegations as some sort of legal shield?
Atlas
JUST BELIEVE HER! After all, vaginas never lie. Just ask Casey Anthony!
"The suit contends the university has harmed his reputation and career prospects by improperly deciding he violated its sexual assault policy early in the fall 2008 semester."
Not much to go on from the article, but this sounds like another of those cases in which, while it was ultimately decided that no rape or sexual assault had actually occurred, the man involved was never-the-less held to be “responsible for something”, and forced out.
I wonder if there has ever been a situation at a college where it is likewise determined that no crime occurred, and instead of dumping all the residual blame on the guy, the college decided that the primary blame for making an unfounded allegation rested with the women – and they asked her to leave instead of the guy?
At least this guy is suing (as is the wrestler from Brown U.) for the harm done to him and his reputation. And, I would add, the fact that he is taking civil action would seem to indicate to me that this might be something more than a case in which it was determined that nothing happened. There might have actually be a recantation/confession by the women that exonerated him.
If so, and he was still expelled, it would seem he has a rather strong case against the University.
This one would be a good case to watch unfold. Does anyone have any update of the suit against Brown?
And speaking of loony women: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/07/12/Bachmann-calls-cops-on-critics-Records/UPI-10291310479216/
MIAMI, July 12 (UPI) -- Rep. Michele Bachmann has a pattern of calling in the police when confronted by opponents, official records show.
In recent years, the Minnesota congresswoman and Republican presidential candidate has asked for police protection or investigations when constituents sent critical e-mails or tried to question her and when protesters threw glitter on her or her campaign yard signs were stolen, The Miami Herald reports.
"She seems paranoid," said Brad Trandem of Lakeland, Minn. "She does all this criticism of other people's lives and talks about how people should be 'armed and dangerous.' But then someone says something critical about her and she calls the police."
[off topic]
I did want to note that there are still a few good journalists out there who are not afraid to stand-up to the feminists and the politically correct and tell the truth, one of them being Heather Mac Donald.
Maid in America
The hardships that Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s accuser may have suffered don’t justify lawbreaking.
Oh -- and if anybody was thinking of feeling sorry for Casey Anthony's jury: http://www2.tbo.com/news/breaking-news/2011/jul/12/jury-foreman-suspicions-about-george-anthony-part--ar-243407/
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TAMPA --
The jury's suspicions of Casey Anthony's father played a role in the decision to acquit the 25-year-old Orlando woman of murder, the panel's foreman said.
George Anthony seemed to have "selective memory" during his testimony, juror No. 11 told Fox News Channel's Greta van Susteren.
***
Uh-huh! The kid's dead body was in Casey's trunk, so who is the jury suspicious of? Her father, of course!
After all, having a penis is far more suspicious than being a compulsive liar, having a dead body in your trunk, and obstructing justice.
Hate to say it, but it's happened yet again:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/07/12/ca-woman-cuts-off-husbands-penis/
Good article, SLW.
You know - it could be said WE live in a "deeply troubled country" as well.
Perhaps asylum should be extended to US citizens being oppressed by fale rape allegations.
SLW, thanks for that.
http://www.city-journal.org/2011/eon0526hm.html
A Queens special education teacher who was busted after videotaping herself in a sex romp with a 15-year-old boy was sentenced today to 90 days in prison.
Christine Williams, 42, was a fifth grader teacher at PS 80 in Jamaica until she was caught in the illicit romp with the kid, a pal of her stepson.
She admitted to Queens Supreme Court Justice Richard Buchter that she had sexual contact -- on two occasions in January and February 2010 -- with the teen.
Williams' teacher license was terminated, according the prosecutors.
"She has disgraced herself -- the children deserve a better role model," Judge Buchter said.
Ellis Kaplan
Christine Williams was sentenced today to 90 days in prison.
Williams pleaded guilty to statutory rape and will have to pay a $1,000 fine, serve 10 years probation, enter a mental health program and register as a sex offender.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/special_ed_teacher_gets_days_for_fNGjcUiqEhDlYoeiZdvx8H#ixzz1Rvi6OqhB
At least in the south, folks are still fighting the against the "gender-feminist courts" takeover.
The Northeastern states are dominated by gender-feminists like Mary Kellet who "Empower" themselves by persecuting innocent men and boys.
"Perversions of the course of justice" is what a society gets, when institutions hide from the public the now "Culture of false Rape accusations".
The truth is extremely important to the proper course of justice, more so over the last 20 years as girls are now being "enabled" to make false rape accusations for the most silliest of reasons.
Gender feminists (like Mart kellet) in their stronghold of the North-Eastern states; "Empower" themselves from persecuting the innocent.
Pretty much the same as this case in Texas
http://www.txcn.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-smusuit_27met.ART0.State.Edition1.43c425f.html
ZimbaZumba - ”Pretty much the same as this case in Texas”
I wonder just how typical this sort of story is – rape allegations so weak that they are never even forwarded to police, yet the man is treated as absolutely guilty, and is being done “some great favor” by allowing him to remain in school (albeit under a very dark cloud).
Given what is scientifically known about how women are much more likely than men to feel regrets about their consensual hook-ups and one-night stands, the college Kangaroo Court Systems seems the perfect outlet for a woman experiencing such regret.
She can exculpate herself of any (self-inflicted) responsibility for having had (drunken) sex, even if she went to a party intent on getting drunk and getting laid. It suddenly becomes a matter of the evil male having taken advantage of her in her disabled state.
And, since it doesn’t bring in law enforcement to investigate and run tests, she can give her side of the story without any evidence being presented to counter her account. And, since the guys isn’t afforded counsel (and, apparently neither timely notification nor a chance to do his own investigation and preparation) only her “facts” (aka her word) will be presented as the correct telling of events.
It’s a perfect set-up.
In the story you linked, it is interesting to note that while other witnesses stated that she seemed perfectly fine to them, her story is that she began to feel as if she’d been drugged after just a few sips (Wow! That must be some super-potent, super-fast acting drug that nobody else knows about yet [/snark]), and no medical evidence or testing was needed to make that “The Facts”(with an expert on date-rape drugs brought in to back her up).
So, it wasn’t her fault for going to a party and getting drunk – No, it was the drugs she was surreptitiously given. So, of course it also wasn’t her fault that she went to the guys dorm room and had sex with him [Ew! Ick! How could a beautiful, smart, sophisticated, and sexually liberated college women have had sex with some loser guy whose family was so poor that he had to live in the dorms if she wasn’t drugged?[/snark]]
Princess gets to have everyone pretend that she’d have never have done such a thing (especially with “that guy”), and that she was a victim. He gets to wear the shame of being believed to be a rapist.
I do hope that the law suits filed by the few men we now know about will encourage others to come forward and do the same. The amounts that Universities stand to lose in law suits needs to greatly outweigh the potential losses in federal educational dollars for not railroading male students (according to official guidelines) in order to force the institutions to actually be fair and unbiased against men.
"At least in the south, folks are still fighting the against the "gender-feminist courts" takeover."
Yeah but what they need to do is fight against the entrenched chivalry that prompeed this woman to lie and these Southern gentlemen to believe and protect her depsite the lack of any evidence. That's what happened here, not some spasm of feminism.
He should have asked for more than 3 million. Once the jury gets to know Sewanee on the stand, they'll add extra punitive.
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http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=5170
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http://listserv.virtueonline.org/pipermail/virtueonline_listserv.virtueonline.org/2003-February/004773.html
Hi Jim!
Chivalrous men enable false rape, but it is instigated by militant feminism.
This is outrageous. While people are falsely accused of sexual assault all the time, this is not one of those times.
In Tennessee, state law stipulates that after having consumed any alcohol whatsoever, no individual may legally consent.
They both admitted to having consumed alcohol and smoked marijuana.
Now the next piece of the equation comes in Tennessee's definition of rape. Bluntly, rape is defined as the penetration of an orifice without consent.
So, what we've learned here is, the University had a very easy decision to make:
Did the alleged victim feel like she had been assaulted? (YES).
Had she consumed any alcohol? (YES).
The law may be antiquated, but the University followed it to the letter.
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