James Madison University and three officials again obtained dismissal of a faculty member’s Title IX and due process claims over a sexual harassment investigation into her relationship with a graduate student.
The Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments claim fell short because the former employee didn’t connect the university’s allegedly flawed disciplinary proceeding and allegedly erroneous outcome that proceeding reached to any gender discrimination, the US District Court for the Western District of Virginia said. It wasn’t enough that her request to include someone from the LGBTQ community on the hearing panel was denied, the court said.
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