We have yet another court ruling that a university denied the most basic due process protections to a student accused of sexual assault. For example, the University of Southern California appeared entirely unmotivated and uninterested in determining if stains on clothing of the victim was blood or red paint from a party where “students splattered paint on each other.” What is astonishing is that, while spending little time to guarantee a fair process, the university has continued to litigate this case to try to protect its right to summarily convict accused students. Claremont McKenna College and the University of California-Santa Barbara were previously cited for such due process violations.
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