Update on this story from September: A student who sued Middlebury College after it investigated him on a rape allegation that he’d previously beaten has settled with the Vermont school.
The Times Argus reports that the school said the unidentified male “will complete his education elsewhere” and both parties will pay their own legal fees.
A federal judge gave the expelled student an early victory in September when ruling the school must readmit him while the case proceeds. The judge said he would suffer “irreparable harm” from losing a high-paying job that was contingent on his graduation and noted the school only opened its own investigation when it was threatened with a Department of Education investigation.
The student had previously been exonerated of the rape allegation by the study-abroad program in which he and his accuser were enrolled at the time of the alleged incident.
The Vermont judge had said that having a gap in his academic record would trail the student for the rest of his professional life, even if he was cleared of the rape.
That “gap year” finding of irreparable harm was explicitly rejected by a federal judge in Atlanta overseeing a similar due-process lawsuit against Georgia Tech that was filed last month.
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h/t KC Johnson
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