TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Dec 31, 2019

U.S. District Judge Mark Norris recently ruled that a lawsuit against the University of Memphis over its handling of two off-campus sexual assaults can proceed, the Commercial Appeal reports. An anonymous former student brought the suit after claiming she’d been sexually assaulted in two different incidents in two off-campus locations in 2017. The lawsuit says the university allowed one of the attackers to stay on campus, even after he was indicted by a grand jury. The university asked Norris to dismiss the suit, arguing it can’t be held responsible for attacks off-campus. Norris sided with the student, agreeing that the lawsuit wasn’t about the assaults, but the university’s response to those attacks. A scheduling conference for the case has been set for Jan. 10, 2020.