A civil lawsuit is accusing two current student athletes at Buchanan High School in Clovis of sexual assault. It’s a case Eyewitness news has been following for a couple of weeks now, after discovering the lawsuit against the two students and their parents. The 16 year old girl who reported the assault last summer is from out of town.
Owen Labrie was convicted of sexual assault in a case that his lawyers said exposed a sordid tradition at the elite boarding school. The girl’s parents, identified in the lawsuit as John and Jane Doe, allege in the lawsuit that school officials who were trusted with protecting their daughter failed to keep her safe by turning a blind eye to a tradition known as the Senior Salute. The victim, …
After two years of legal back-and-forth, a Columbia student will be allowed to sue the University, which he claims violated his Title IX rights in an adjudication process that found him responsible for sexual assault. The student, identified by the pseudonym “John Doe,” initially filed a lawsuit against the University in the spring of 2014. But after a federal judge dismissed the lawsuit …
Comedian Bill Cosby on Thursday dropped the remaining counts of a lawsuit he filed against one of the women accusing him of sexual assault, along with several others, claiming they violated the terms of a confidential settlement in another lawsuit. The dismissal comes 10 days after U.S. District Judge Eduardo Robreno ruled that Cosby could not sue Andrea Constand, her mother, Gianna Constand, …
A male student has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the University of Colorado claiming the college discriminated against him during a sexual assault investigation that ultimately led to his expulsion. The male student, identified in court documents only as John Doe, denies allegations that he sexually assaulted two female CU students and claims in the lawsuit that CU’s student- …
A judge in California has ruled that Uber can be sued over sexual assault committed by its drivers, Consumerist reported on Friday. Uber had moved to dismiss two charges of sexual assault filed against the company, arguing that it can’t be held liable for the assaults because of technicalities regarding the employment status of its drivers.
Uber also argued that in one case, the driver wasn’t using the Uber app when he picked up the female victim. However, the judge shot that down too, because the passenger still believed the attacker “was acting in his capacity as an Uber driver,” since he had picked up her group earlier. It’s one more judge independently agreeing that at least as far as it appears, Uber is treating these drivers …
It’s college acceptance season. Millions of students are now weighing their options about where to spend the next four years of their lives. As they do, they will likely turn to premier college rankings guides such as The Princeton Review, an independent organization that has offered data on colleges and universities for more than three decades.