NEW HAVEN – The former captain of the Yale University men's basketball team has sued the Ivy League school for defamation and breach of contract, claiming the university unfairly expelled him after a secret Title IX tribunal decided that his relationship with a fellow student constituted sexual assault, despite his claim that the relationship was consensual.
Jack Montague, of Brentwood, Tennessee, was expelled from Yale in February, in the midst of his senior year and final basketball season, after the University Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct ruled that he had assaulted a female student the previous academic year. Montague has maintained that the relationship was on-going and consensual.
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In November 2016, America might elect as president Hillary Clinton, the wife of an impeached and disbarred former president, who herself is under FBI investigation. Alternatively, we might select Donald Trump, whose notion of presidential comportment is to lead a campaign rally in racist sneering at the federal judge overseeing a fraud lawsuit against him.
