UVA Stops Title IX Suit Alleging Indifference to Sexual Assault

The University of Virginia convinced a federal district court to reject a former’s student’s suit asserting that the university improperly responded to her sexual assault allegations against a professor.

Plaintiff Jane Doe asserted a claim for deliberate indifference to sexual harassment under Title IX, among other claims, in her suit filed in April 2023. But Doe’s claims are untimely under Title IX’s two-year statute of limitations, and she didn’t show the school responded with deliberate indifference to her allegations, Judge Robert S. Ballou of the US District Court for the Western District of Virginia said in a Thursday order granting ...