A Columbia University student’s claim that the school acted with an anti-male bias when it suspended him on accusations of sexual misconduct was reinstated by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
“The role of the court at this stage of the proceeding is not in any way to evaluate the truth as to what really happened, but merely to determine whether the plaintiff’s factual allegations are sufficient to allow the case to proceed,” the circuit wrote Friday in John Doe v. Columbia University, 15-1536/15-1661.
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