Analysis – School Followed Title IX Rules, But Still Must Pay $4 Million
By John F. Banzhaf III, B.S.E.E., J.D., Sc.D., Professor of Public Interest Law Emeritus, George Washington University Law School
Pacific University has been ordered to pay some $4 million for unfairly treating a student it had expelled for an alleged sexual assault, even though it had followed the federal government's Title IX guidelines for handling such cases.
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