You misunderstand - no one says someone who has been convicted of rape should be spared punishment because of how much money it will cost them or what it will do to the rest of their life.

Something like plagiarism or violating a school honor code (i.e. problems for which a school might want to issue discipline but would fail to interest the authorities) can be adjudicated by a single responsible authority - like a dean or provost. The stakes in these cases are comparatively low, the reputational and…

Schools can just as easily expel someone convicted of a crime. What they suck at is adjudicating guilt or innocence. An accuser does not have more rights than an accused, either in law or in school. A determination of fact has to be made first before a person should be deprived, and schools simply will never be able…

Actually, plenty of administrators would be happy to not have the responsibility for administering a justice system for students. But they don’t have a choice, as it is required by the Department of Education as a pre-requisite for federal funding. I’m sure virtually all university administrators would sigh with…

Yes, so why compound the problem with a second, flawed system? We’ve spent 200 years working on one, what is the likelihood that individual universities will come up with something that works better on a much shorter timeline and with any consistency?

Just one more example of why it doesn’t make sense to force universities to re-create the justice system. The justice system is flawed, but it has already resolved a lot of these sort of threshold structural questions. Universities should forward claims to police agencies (or forward victims to them directly), and…

More than likely she gave her consent in writing at the time (maybe she didn’t read the contracts?) and regrets giving it now. That she’s only tweeting about it suggests she knows she doesn’t have legal leverage. That doesn’t mean she doesn’t have some moral leverage, but it isn’t overwhelming.

Nope, not completely true. The cop can’t enforce discriminatory practices, if he or she is aware of their discriminatory intent.

{{citation needed}}

Haha, a real estate developer and a tax attorney is exactly the relationship that immediately came to my mind too. What is special about the attorney client relationship that calls for this rule? Do we need a ban on sex between a client an a plumber? A client and a massage therapist? A personal trainer, or piano…

Actually, as a public accommodation, CVS is not entitled to eject people based on their membership in a protected class, whether race, disability, etc. Both men have a legitimate legal cause of action against CVS; the police have protections for actions taken in the line of duty that aren’t obviously unconstitutional,…

The spending time part was in his contract. The sex part... She was a pretty hot 19 year old, have to admit.

The point is that the older Nissan is still being produced and used in Mexico, and is still considered street legal. So it is an apt example for comparing safety standards as they are applied today.

A couple of obvious points: he may not have been the actual genesis of HIV in the United States, but he infected a lot of people. The fact that his diary was used by epidemiologists to trace the outbreak of HIV speaks volumes.

It absolutely does make them bitches. It doesn’t mean all women are bitches. I wouldn’t even restrict the use of the term to women - men in their position would also earn the descriptor bitches. But what they are doing to this guy is beyond qualifying as bitchy.

“The Noro virus” huh?

Sheen was the major star on a broadcast network TV show that was one of the most popular shows in the United States, a pretty far cry from a well regarded show on a small niche cable network. The broadcast networks report live viewership and BET reports live-plus-three-days, meaning the gap between the viewership of…

The undecideds were the panel of people offering questions, not the audience.

Somehow I doubt you looked at the actual course case. His co-defendant was convicted, appealed, had his conviction overturned and then was acquitted in a second trial. You know who did look at the case in detail? The original judge and jury.

You mean, assuming he is guilty. Have you not even considered the possibility that he isn’t guilty?