GRAND RAPIDS — Michigan State University claims former business school dean Sanjay Gupta's lawsuit is a "desperate, last-ditch plea" to get a federal judge to act as "super-personnel department" for the university, according to recent filing asking the court to throw out the suit.
Gupta sued in February, about six months after Interim President Teresa Woodruff forced him to resign following reports that he failed to notify the university's Title IX office of an instance of alleged sexual misconduct, even though other employees had already reportedly done so.
Gupta claims he was pushed out and falsely accused of reporting violations in a scheme to keep him from becoming MSU's next president and "enhance" Woodruff's personal ambitions to lead the university.
On Monday, attorneys for Woodruff and six other current and former MSU officials filed a motion to dismiss.
"It is self-evident that compliance with MSU policies is essential to (Gupta's) former role," they wrote. "The MSU community deserves to know that its employees, specifically its leaders, do everything in their control to promote a safe environment for students. (Gupta's) own conduct has led him here — not any manufactured due process violations or so-called tortious conduct by Defendants."
A message seeking comment from Gupta's attorney wasn't immediately returned.
Last year, Gupta failed to report that a professor in the business school was accused of getting drunk at an off-campus party for MBA students and...
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