BOSTON — Harvard University is not backing down from challenging a female graduate's federal lawsuit claiming the school was negligent in adjudicating a sexual assault allegation in accordance to new Title IX policies.
In a motion to dismiss, attorneys representing the prestigious Ivy League institution claim the school did everything within its power to accommodate the accuser, Alyssa Leader, who graduated in December and alleges administrators refused her pleas to have the accused, a former boyfriend, moved out of the dormitory where they both lived.
In June 1776, the Second Continental Congress appointed a committee to draft a formal document outlining the arguments in support of independence. Although Thomas Jefferson of Virginia gets most of the credit for the document we know today as the Declaration of Independence, the drafting committee also included John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, and Robert R. Livingston of New York. Their draft was first presented to Congress on June 28, 1776 and Congress approved the final version on July 4.
