Butler Soccer Student-Athletes Accuse Trainer of Sexual Assault

By John T. Wendt, J.D., M.A., Professor Emeritus, Ethics and Business Law - University of St. Thomas Three Butler University women’s soccer players have filed separate federal lawsuits against the school’s former athletic trainer Michael Howell, Butler’s senior associate athletic director for Student-Athlete Health, Performance and Well-Being Ralph Reiff, and Butler University itself, for negligence, gross negligence, battery, assault, and intentional infliction of emotional d