Accused men everywhere are suing over due process. "If you're found responsible for sexual misconduct at a university in America, your future is arguably over," said one attorney.
A Michigan State undergrad accused of sexual assault. A Cal grad student who says he was denied due process. The Maryland baseball players accused of rape.
And as of Friday, a Baylor professor who says he was falsely accused of raping a student.
They're all suing to clear their names — and, in some cases, get monetary damages — and turn back what had been a wave of Title IX complaints that swept U.S. college campuses during the peak of the #MeToo and "believe all women" movements.
On Friday, John Doe, a pseudonym for an assistant professor in Baylor's Department of Economics, filed a 35-page federal lawsuit in Waco, Texas, that alleges he engaged in a consensual relationship with a female student who, in July 2018, accused him of rape, sexual exploitation, intimate-partner violence, and more.
A campus Title IX investigation last October found in the student's favor, concluding that Doe was "responsible" for those three allegations, but cleared him of others.
Comment: Yes the man who went up to Cuomo and his family was being a jackass and Cuomo rightfully got upset. But clearly Cuomo doesn't have too much of a problem with people using Fredo to describe him or others. He even referred to himself as Fredo in a radio interview from 2010.