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The School Had ‘No Direct Evidence’ Of Sexual Harassment, Yet They Were Suspended Anyway. They’ve Now Filed A Class-Action Lawsuit.

Ashe Schow
The School Had ‘No Direct Evidence’ Of Sexual Harassment, Yet They Were Suspended Anyway. They’ve Now Filed A Class-Action Lawsuit.
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Two young men who attended the University of California are suing their school for separate incidents in which they were each punished for sexual misconduct despite the school — according to them — having no direct evidence of such misconduct.

The first student, referred to as John Doe in court documents, was a graduate student at UC-Los Angeles accused of sexual harassment and stalking. John says in his lawsuit, according to a copy obtained by UC-Santa Barbara student newspaper The Daily Nexus, that he cooperated with UCLA, “meeting with the Title IX investigator several times and providing documents to support his defense that the allegations against him were entirely false.” John claims in his lawsuit that he repeatedly asked for the school’s evidence against him but was denied and that the investigation “disclosed no direct evidence” of the allegations against him.

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