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A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that several groups of former students who were sexually abused by a longtime Ohio State University doctor can sue the institution over its handling of the situation. The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit overturns a lower court’s rulings that the plaintiffs’ Title IX claims against the university were no longer valid under the statute of limitations.
The Sixth Circuit had reached a similar decision last fall in a case involving two other groups of victims of Dr. Richard Strauss, who abused more than 200 male students and athletes during his time as a physician at Ohio State.
Wednesday’s decision requires the lower court to reconsider the lawsuits filed by several other groups of plaintiffs. Ohio State has reached settlements worth tens of millions of dollars with many of the plaintiffs, but some sued the university under the federal law barring sex discrimination in education programs, alleging that it had done too little to protect them.
