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Expelled Yale hoops player seeks reinstatement, claims school violated its own Title IX confidentiality rules

NEW HAVEN — Attorneys representing expelled former Yale University basketball captain Jack Montague have filed a motion in federal court that seeks to force the school to allow him to complete his degree. Yale expelled the hoops star months before he was set to graduate after a university disciplinary committee determined

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Women-only ride service for Boston confronts legal concerns

BOSTON – Easing safety concerns among women providing a ride-sharing service in which female drivers only pick up female passengers may seem like a good business proposition. At least, that's what Chariot for Women hopes it will become when it begins operating in Boston in future months. The idea

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Uber can be sued over driver assaults, judge rules

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge says two women who allege that Uber drivers assaulted them, one in Boston and the other in South Carolina, can sue the ride-hailing company. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco says the women showed the possibility that the drivers were Uber

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Harvard seeks dismissal of lawsuit over sex assault case

CAMBRIDGE – Harvard University is refusing to settle with a female graduate who accused the Ivy League institution of failing to follow federal rules on handling allegations of sexual assault in a bombshell federal lawsuit brought against the school in February. In a recent court filing, Harvard lawyers not only signaled

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Prep school sex offender Labrie released from jail

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A graduate of the St. Paul's School convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old freshman girl as part of a game of sexual conquest will again be free pending his appeal. Owen Labrie's bail was revoked in March after he admitted violating his

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Harvard Final Club fights back

CAMBRIDGE – Harvard College's Final Clubs, the exclusive social institutions unaffiliated with the Ivy League university but targeted by administrators over sexual assault data, are fighting back. In March, a school task force on campus assault released a report that ripped the undergraduate school's six all-male clubs,

Massachusetts

Sexual assault surveys: Coming to a Massachusetts college near you?

BOSTON — Campus climate surveys, which supporters say can help schools identify the best practices for curbing sexual assault on campus, but which have been widely criticized by both conservative and feminist groups, could soon be coming to Massachusetts. Last spring, state Sen. William Brownsberger (D-Belmont) authored a bill that calls

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U-New Mexico flunks feds’ test for sex assault response

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Students often do not know how to report sexual assault and sexual harassment at the University of New Mexico or where to turn for help in a broken system that violates federal law, the U.S. Justice Department said Friday. The department, which launched its investigation