A lawsuit that said Columbia University was indifferent to sexual assault allegations was correctly dismissed by a lower court, an appeals panel said Tuesday.
The US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit panel said Jane Doe’s 2021 lawsuit against the university didn’t meet the bar for Rule 12(b)(6) because her complaint lacked “enough facts” to state a plausible claim to relief, according to the order.
“The District Court gave Doe two opportunities to amend her complaint, but Doe failed each time to remedy the deficiencies that it identified,” the panel wrote.
Doe reported that she was sexually ...
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