Oh, but you and Jezebel have already decided, that much is clear. Now repeat after me:

Also - you have no idea whether or not he failed to meet the criteria or they just flat out refused to consider his appeal. Appreciate that difference, friend.

Finally, someone admits that no one knows anything about this case. And that’s a problem.

Oh, gee thanks.

lol, if you have a copy of his appeal I’d be happy to walk you through section 7.7 of the disciplinary procedures, and whether or not he meets the criteria.

Yeah, you mad. I’m a lawyer and defend civil rights actions. This story is just beginning, and it’s cute that you think you know it all. Bless your heart.

You seem pretty invested in this. And cocksure about your anonymous sources “according to sources familiar with the facts of the case.”

I’m going to dismiss these strawmen from now on. I have never suggested school action requires convictions.

You don’t know what happened. All we’re getting is hearsay on both sides.

Yes, I understand what I cut/pasted. And your “question” was a strawman - I’ve never said that a school can’t discipline without criminal prosecution first - but in traditionally criminal matters they must provide due process.

I never said that they couldn’t! I’m just pointing out that the school still must follow traditional rules of fairness and due process.

Lol, you are reporting hearsay as fact. What does “chose not to grant” mean? How does that square with “refused to hear”?

Of course, a court must be sensitive to an institution’s right to make its own academic decisions and to order its relationship to and among students free from unwarranted government interference. Nonetheless, courts are not reluctant to grant relief against private universities where substantive rights are violated,…

Were you on the appeal board? Where are you getting all these details? Because this is all we have:

Yes, but they didn’t follow them by refusing to even hear the appeal.

Sure they are:

The point that you can not seem to grasp is that sexual assault is a criminal offense, and affords the defendant a group of rights that a defendant in a simple plagiarism case does not enjoy, and therefore when you strip those rights away, refuse to even hear an appeal, you are probably violating a student’s civil…

Give him an appeal for starters.

Some due process, such as an appeal, should be granted in any disciplinary process.

Plagiarism has never been a criminal offense, whereas sexual assault is. Try again.