Ohio State University Bid to Toss Abuse Suits Denied by Justices

The Supreme Court rejected Ohio State University’s request to throw out lawsuits from hundreds of people who say they were sexually abused by team doctor Richard Strauss.

The justices Monday refused to review a lower court’s decision expanding the interpretation of the civil rights law known as Title IX, which prohibits sex-based discrimination at federally funded schools.

Ohio State University was seeking to overturn a 6th US Circuit of Appeals ruling that survivors can bring Title IX complaints within two years of discovering a university had “deliberate indifference” toward sexual harassment, rather than two years after the abuse occurred. ...