Federal Judge Sides with Individual Defendant in Rutgers Basketball Abuse Case

A federal judge from the District of New Jersey has granted summary judgment to that state’s former chairman of board of governors' committee on intercollegiate athletics. Defendant Mark P. Hershhorn was named in a lawsuit by a former student athlete at Rutgers University as part of the fallout of the scandal involving Rutgers’ former basketball coach.   Plaintiff Derrick Randall was a student at Rutgers and a player on the school's men's basketball team from the fall of 2011 to the spr