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Anytime someone tells you that you can't have a lawyer present, you definitely need to call a lawyer. From http://www.nacua.org/onlinecourses/title_ix_coordina
by paulsutter 11y ago
Anytime someone tells you that you can't have a lawyer present, you definitely need to call a lawyer.
From
http://www.nacua.org/onlinecourses/title_ix_coordinator_training_2012/docs/ReviewSexualAssaultPolicy_Feb2012.pdf http://www.nacua.org/onlinecourses/title_ix_coordinator_trai...
"State and federal courts — not OCR — have the final say in determining relevant due process requirements. Courts are likely to give accused students a right to legal assistance"
(OCR is the DoE Office of Civil Rights which controls Title IX)
- blisterpeanuts 11y agoYes, this was a red flag in the article. She's a tenured professor being attacked by a pair of anonymous malicious students who could destroy her career with one false, perverse accusation, with impunity? And the idiot administration is taking these accusers seriously enough to hire an out of town law firm to prosecute the case? She should definitely have lawyered up and threatened a big, glaringly public, embarrassing lawsuit. Bureaucrats are cowards, in general, and such a tenuous case would likely have been dropped.
- tsotha 11y agoYeah, the minute someone, anyone, tells me I don't have a right to a lawyer is the minute I tell them "My lawyer will be in contact regarding that assertion."
- mattnad 11y agoSchools are allowed to set their own policies on legal representation in internal matters (except where stipulated by law). It's only when a dispute hits the legal system that a right to an attorney is sacrosanct.