After the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that former Yale student Saifullah Khan could sue the woman whom he allegedly raped for defamation, the Second Court of Appeals issued a decision on Wednesday allowing that defamation suit to go forward. The new ruling now opens the possibility for accusers in University Title IX hearings over sexual assault to be sued for defamation.
The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled in June that Saifullah Khan, who allegedly raped a female peer at Yale in 2018, may proceed with a defamation suit against the accuser.
On April 4, 2011, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released a document dramatically reinterpreting Title IX, the federal law that prohibits gender discrimination in colleges and universities that receive federal funds.[1] The document issued by the OCR was a “Dear Colleague” letter, an allegedly informal agency guidance that Department of Education officials claimed did not need to follow notice-and-comment rulemaking pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act.