Decades-Old Ohio State Sex Abuse Case Denied Full-Court Reconsideration
Decades-old abuse lawsuits against Ohio State University may proceed, now that a district court of appeals has declined to re-hear a decision from a panel allowing dismissed suits to move forward.
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An appeals court panel’s decision reviving unsettled federal lawsuits against Ohio State University won’t be reconsidered by the full court, Kantele Franko reports for the Associated Press.
A judge had dismissed many unsettled cases against the university arguing that the statutory limit for claims involving the late Richard Strauss had already passed, but survivors argued the clock on claims against the university shouldn’t have started until there were public reasons to believe Ohio State covered up or enabled Strauss’ behavior. A three-judge panel agreed in September, and on Wednesday, the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided not to rehear the appeal, allowing the cases to move forward.
The allegations revolve around a decades-old sexual abuse case by the now-deceased Strauss, who abused a number of young male students while working as an althetics department doctor in between 1979 and 1996. The university has released public apologies and has awarded over $60 million in settlements to at least 296 survivors.
