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Betsy DeVos releases sexual assault rules she hails as balancing rights of victims, accused

Betsy DeVos releases sexual assault rules she hails as balancing rights of victims, accused By Laura Meckler November 16 at 5:30 PM Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Friday released her long-awaited rewrite of rules governing campus sexual harassment and assault allegations, narrowing the cases schools must investigate and giving the accused more rights. The proposal

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ABC Makes Patently False Claim About New Title IX Rules

ABC Makes Patently False Claim About New Title IX Rules The new standard does not require victims to show that they can’t return to school. It doesn’t even require them to leave school in the first place. Robby Soave|Nov. 16, 2018 3:01 pm LEAH MILLIS/REUTERS/NewscomABC has badly mischaracterized Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ proposed changes to Title IX

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Lawsuit: Purdue accused of ‘chilling’ retaliation on women who reported sexual assaults

Lawsuit: Purdue accused of ‘chilling’ retaliation on women who reported sexual assaults Dave Bangert, Lafayette Journal & CourierPublished 4:39 p.m. ET Nov. 14, 2018 | Updated 10:09 p.m. ET Nov. 15, 2018 In a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday, two former students claim they were kicked out of school after Purdue couldn’t find enough evidence in their

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Investigation: Charges for Iowa State Title IX litigation top $416,000

Investigation: Charges for Iowa State Title IX litigation top $416,000 By K. Rambo, k.rambo@iowastatedaily.com, @k_rambo_ Nov 11, 2018 Updated 21 hrs ago Editor’s Note: This is part three of an investigation to track the amount of money charged in recent Title IX cases against Iowa State. Part one was published Feb. 16, 2016, part two was published May 29, 2018. More

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SAVE PR – Surging Public Support for Due Process and the Presumption of Innocence

Surging Public Support for Due Process and the Presumption of Innocence WASHINGTON / November 12, 2018 – Several non-partisan, national surveys point to widespread public concern about the erosion of the presumption of innocence and due process in our country, the problem of false allegations, and a pressing need to reinvigorate these bedrock principles of fairness

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New Education Department Rules to Change Procedures for Campus Sexual-Assault Cases

New Education Department Rules to Change Procedures for Campus Sexual-Assault Cases By Michelle Hackman Oct. 31, 2018 6:37 p.m. ET WASHINGTON—New federal rules governing campus sexual-assault cases will require that accused students be allowed to cross-examine their accusers, according to people familiar with a draft of the rules. The requirement marks a shift from an

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OTL: College athletes three times more likely to be named in Title IX sexual misconduct complaints

OTL: College athletes three times more likely to be named in Title IX sexual misconduct complaints http://www.espn.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/25149259/college-athletes-three-s-more-likely-named-title-ix-sexual-misconduct-complaints Paula LavigneESPN Staff Writer COLLEGE ATHLETES IN recent years were about three times more likely than other students to be accused of sexual misconduct or domestic violence in complaints made at Power 5 conference schools, according to an

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#MeToo Excesses Have Turned the Tide of Public Opinion, Surveys Reveal

PRESS RELEASE Contact: Rebecca Stewart Telephone: 513-479-3335 Email: info@saveservices.org #MeToo Excesses Have Turned the Tide of Public Opinion, Surveys Reveal WASHINGTON / November 1, 2018 – Three recent surveys reveal the excesses of the #MeToo movement have increased public skepticism of sexual harassment accusers and rallied support for the accused. As a result, overall support for

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#HeToo: How the Campus Accused Fight Back in Court and Often Win

#HeToo: How the Campus Accused Fight Back in Court and Often Win By Richard Bernstein, RealClearInvestigations October 30, 2018 John Doe and Jane Roe met at a fraternity party. The two, both referred to with common legal pseudonyms, danced and drank. Then they went upstairs to John’s room, where they had sex. Two days later, Jane filed

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Cornell pays accused student $125,000 to settle double-jeopardy suicide lawsuit

Cornell pays accused student $125,000 to settle double-jeopardy suicide lawsuit GREG PIPER – ASSOCIATE EDITOR •OCTOBER 2, 2018 It will pay attorney’s fees as well, once they are assessed Title IX proceedings sometimes traumatize accused students so much they attempt suicide. This happened to a male student at Cornell University, who formally accused his sex partner