UNC Chapel Hill again finds itself enmeshed in a legal dispute over its handling of sexual assault allegations, this time involving a former honors student who claims he was expelled after a “premeditated and coordinated” campaign by four female students to wrongly accuse him of sexual misconduct.
The plaintiff, a former Morehead-Cain scholar identified by the pseudonym “Jacob Doe,” claims he lost his scholarship and friends, was thrown out of his fraternity and housing, and eventually was permanently expelled from the UNC system in 2021.
He blames his treatment on what his lawsuit describes as a deeply flawed, gender-biased campus investigation that “utterly and completely ignored Plaintiff’s evidence and continuously skewed the investigations and hearings to assist the female accusers.”
Nontheless, Doe was fully exonerated in two of the four cases brought against him, according to his lawsuit.
His complaint, which was first reported by the Charlotte Ledger, names the UNC system and its Board of Governors; UNC Chapel Hill, Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz, the school’s trustees and seven UNC administrators who either investigated or ruled on the women’s allegations.
They face a host of claims, including violations of Doe’s due process, conspiracy, breach of contract, and negligent infliction of emotional distress.
Doe, who lived in Charlotte during part of the period covered by the lawsuit, calls for a jury trial, damages in excess of $75,000 and a revocation of his expulsion,...
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