Attorneys general support University of Arkansas in lawsuit

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     (AP) – Attorneys general from Arkansas and six other states

are supporting the University of Arkansas’ request to dismiss a former student’s

lawsuit against the school.

     The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that Arkansas Attorney General Leslie

Rutledge filed a legal brief Monday in support of dismissing the lawsuit.

Attorneys general from Arizona, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Carolina and

Texas also joined in the filing.

     The lawsuit was filed by a woman who told police and school officials she’d

been raped in her dorm room by another student in October 2014. The lawsuit says

the university violated Title IX, a federal law that prohibits sex

discrimination at schools that receive federal funding.

     Rutledge’s office argues that the state’s sovereign immunity, when a state is

immune from civil suit or criminal prosecution, should force a federal appellate

court to dismiss the lawsuit.




   

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