At Columbia, suit alleges sexual assault investigation discriminated against male student

Article here. (Originally submitted by MANN reader 'Mastodon', but a technical problem during an update required the original post to be deleted.) Excerpt:

'Amid a backdrop of intense activism, a male Columbia student is retaliating in federal court against an internal disciplinary conviction of sexual assault.

The student, who is only identified as John Doe in the suit filed Monday, alleges that Columbia administrators sought to make an example out of his case, that his rights under Title IX were violated and that administrators succumbed to external pressures from student activists in determining his guilt. He was allegedly suspended for up to a year and a half as a result.

According to a copy of the complaint, the plaintiff and a female student identified as Jane Doe belonged to the same group of friends and met the night of the alleged incident in a study lounge. They allegedly spent hours chatting and studying, after which the subject of hooking up was brought up.'

Ed. Update: A copy of the suit complaint can be downloaded from MANN here (.pdf file, over 19 MB in size). The names of students involved in the investigation or mentioned in the narrative have been redacted, as well as information likely to cause them to be identified by others. However, no amount of redaction in today's tech-savvy age can be perfect. Nonetheless, this is a public document, and while anyone can get ahold of a copy of it, the names of people tangentially involved in the case but do not hold a staff position at Columbia or whose names, if mentioned, would tend to make it much easier to identify either John or Jane Doe, have been redacted in this copy.