Campus Sex Assault Case Sends Warning to Indifferent Colleges

Welcome back to Opening Argument, a column where I dig into disputes lower courts are wrestling with and unpack complicated litigation. On tap today, a look at the scope of liability for sexual harassment on college campuses.

Karlie Hall was a freshman at Millersville University in Pennsylvania when her boyfriend strangled her to death in her dorm room in 2015. Seven years later the college is still fighting claims it could have done more to protect her.

Because Hall’s boyfriend wasn’t a student at the school, Millersville University said her parents couldn’t hold the school liable ...