The Chronicle of Higher Education Interviews Justin Dillon On Title IX Due Process

March 9, 2017 -- As part of a lengthy piece examining the increase in lawsuits being filed on behalf of accused students in sexual misconduct cases on campus, The Chronicle of Higher Education interviewed Partner Justin Dillon, who has represented accused students nationwide in such cases. Mr. Dillon explained that schools appear to have been surprised by the number of accused students who were willing to fight back, and that seeing them sue had been a wake-up call.

“There was a problem,” he said, with how schools handled sexual assault cases in the old days. “But I think it was wildly overcorrected,” he noted, leading to a system in which only one student is penalized for engaging in conduct that both students were “equally into,” usually while equally intoxicated.

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