Without comment, the court rejected an appeal from the university. The case revolves around alleged abuse by Dr. Richard Strauss beginning in the late 1970s. Strauss died in 2005. The university’s lawyers called Strauss’ conduct “reprehensible” but said the lawsuits were untimely because they were filed too late, exceeding the statute of limitations.
The men accused the university of “deliberate indifference to sex crimes” within the university and said that many victims did not know the full extent of the school’s involvement in a cover-up until 2019. In court papers, the school said it has “committed substantial resources to preventing and addressing sexual misconduct on campus” and is a fundamentally different institution today. It called the questions in the case “purely legal.
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