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By K.C. Johnson

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[Update, Monday at 11.15am: in the WSJ Law Blog, Jacob Gershman has an excellent summary of the case, including a revealing comment from the Duke spokesperson.]Last year, James Taranto published a sensational piece on a kangaroo court at Auburn; I praised it at Minding the Campus. Taranto?s effectiveness came in his ability to bring observers inside a badly flawed sexual assault process.The Liestoppers board has posted many of the documents from the McLeod lawsuit against Duke. In a different way than occurred with Taranto?s article, they help bring us inside Duke?s curious processes and seemingly ever-shifting standards. Some discussion below, and I will also have some more to come at MTC.Duke made two arguments against the McLeod lawsuit. The first, which Judge Smith at least at this stage rejected, was that Duke had no legal obligation to follow its own standards, and therefore the expulsion should stand...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on June 02, 2014 (boomark / email).