Expelled Basketball Player Sues Yale [View all]
Source: NYT
The Yale basketball player who was expelled in February after a university committee found that he had raped a fellow student sued the university on Thursday, accusing it of a “deeply flawed process.”
In the lawsuit and an accompanying statement released by a public-relations firm, the player, Jack Montague, who was once the team captain, suggested that Yale had chosen to make an example of him because of public criticism over its handling of the hot-button issue of campus sexual assault.
“Montague — captain of Yale’s basketball team and one of the most prominent male students on campus — was Yale’s ticket to restoring its tarnished image,” the statement charged.
The complaint, filed in federal court in Connecticut, named Yale and two Title IX coordinators as defendants.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/10/sports/ncaabasketball/jack-montague-yale-rape-lawsuit.html
Interesting timing given the controversy over the Stanford rapist getting six months in jail.
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