Ex-CUNY Manager Accused of Sex Harassment Gets Due Process Trial

A jury must decide whether a Title IX report finding that a City University of New York athletic manager sexually harassed a student included false statements and was disseminated widely enough to prevent him from finding another job, a federal court ruled.

A jury could also reasonably find that Rogelio Knights Jr.'s firing constituted an official policy or custom that denied his liberty without due process, the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York ruled Tuesday.

The court however granted two CUNY administrators summary judgment on Knights’s deprivation of liberty claims because they weren’t personally involved or ...