Denise Wallace has been general counsel of Florida A&M University for only two weeks and already finds herself and the public university embroiled in a high-profile legal controversy on disclosing the name of a former student alleging rape.

The school and its defense lawyers from Cozen O’Connor in Miami and Philadelphia insist on the right to name the plaintiff, listed in court papers as S.B. U.S. District Judge Mark Walker in Tallahassee has twice denied their request to disclose the name. They are appealing his latest ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

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