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Colleges and Universities are Failing to Meet Their Title IX Obligations to Male Students

PRESS RELEASE Contact: Rebecca Stewart Telephone: 513-479-3335 Email: info@saveservices.org Colleges and Universities are Failing to Meet Their Title IX Obligations to Male Students WASHINGTON / August 20, 2019 – A review of scholarships at over 200 colleges and universities in 36 states reveals widespread discriminatory practices in the provision of sex-specific scholarships for male students

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Affirmative Consent Sexual Assault

Affirmative Consent: New Paradigm for Sexual Behavior

Statement of Neal Sonnett, Member of the Criminal Justice Section, to the American Bar Association House of Delegates August 12, 2019 We agreed to work with the Commission [on Domestic and Sexual Violence] on this Resolution [114], and that goes back to [Resolution] 115 at the mid-year meeting. And [Commission head] Mark Schickman and some

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Affirmative Consent Due Process Trauma Informed

Will the ABA Reject Due Process?

By KC Johnson and Stuart Taylor Jr. Aug. 11, 2019 In August 2014 the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga deemed student Corey Mock guilty of sexual assault, finding that in the disputed encounter he failed to prove he had obtained “affirmative consent” from the accuser. According to Mr. Mock’s unrebutted testimony, the female student’s actions during intercourse

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Affirmative Consent

ABA Resolution 114: It’s Not Dead Yet (Update)

Scott Greenfield August 11, 2019 Lara Bazelon tweeted that the ABA Criminal Justice Section unanimously voted to withdraw its support for Resolution 114 and ask the House of Delegates to table it. Great news, certainly, but this misbegotten mutt, even if it’s just the ABA and not an organization of any significance, isn’t dead yet. The NACDL opposed

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American Bar Association Considers Defining All Sexual Contact as Rape

https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/item/33081-american-bar-association-considers-resolution-that-virtually-defines-all-sex-as-rape Thursday, 08 August 2019 American Bar Association Considers Defining All Sexual Contact as Rape Written by Raven Clabough The American Bar Association (ABA) will be voting on a resolution that would urge state legislatures to adopt the controversial “affirmative consent” as the criminal definition of sexual consent at its annual meeting this week. Such a resolution

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Sex Without A Notarized Document Of Consent Is Teetering On Becoming A Thing Of The Past

http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2019/08/sex-without-a-n.html August 7, 2019 Sex Without A Notarized Document Of Consent Is Teetering On Becoming A Thing Of The Past Of course, even a notarized document doesn’t protect you, as the person you’re having sex with could say they withdrew consent mid-act, and you don’t have proof that you had consent to continue. In short

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Top Legal Organization About To Adopt Dangerous ‘Affirmative Consent’ Resolution That Defines All Sex As Rape Unless Otherwise Proven

https://www.dailywire.com/news/50344/top-legal-organization-about-adopt-dangerous-ashe-schow Top Legal Organization About To Adopt Dangerous ‘Affirmative Consent’ Resolution That Defines All Sex As Rape Unless Otherwise Proven katleho Seisa By ASHE SCHOW August 7, 2019 It’s been a few years since the dangerous “affirmative consent” standard has made headlines. Many colleges and universities began adopting the standard about half-a-decade ago, following the state

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Title IX a Sticking Point in Talks Over New Higher Ed Law

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/08/06/title-ix-emerges-top-obstacle-higher-ed-law-deal Title IX a Sticking Point in Talks Over New Higher Ed Law Resolving differences over sexual assault procedures, including requirements for live hearings, emerges as one of the biggest challenges for negotiating a reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. By Andrew Kreighbaum August 6, 2019 For the past two years, Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee

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Investigations

CORRUPT COPS: Planted Evidence, Coerced Confessions, and now, ‘Conviction-Oriented’ Investigations

Center for Prosecutor Integrity August 7, 2019 Police misconduct is a long-standing problem in our criminal justice system. Examples include fabrication of evidence, high-pressure interrogations, bribery, and more. Now there’s a new way to corrupt the process: Conviction-oriented investigations. AND IT’S BEING ACTIVELY PROMOTED BY THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Ethics codes require investigators

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American Bar Association mulls campus sex rules for criminal code

https://www.thecollegefix.com/american-bar-association-mulls-campus-sex-rules-for-criminal-code/ American Bar Association mulls campus sex rules for criminal code GREG PIPER – ASSOCIATE EDITOR •AUGUST 6, 2019 ‘Disastrous for due process’ if resolution passes On college campuses, accused students often must prove they obtained “affirmative consent” from their partners before and throughout sexual activity. In a few states, it’s the law for college students. The