(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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