CU-Boulder asks judge to throw out Title IX lawsuit filed by 'John Doe'

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'Lawyers for the University of Colorado have asked a federal judge to throw out the Title IX lawsuit filed late last year by an anonymous male student who claims he was wrongly accused and punished for sexual assault.

In a 25-page motion filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Denver, CU's lawyers argued that the male student's claims of sex discrimination are baseless.

The male student, whose identity is protected by the court, is suing CU under Title IX, the federal gender equity law that has historically been used to protect the rights of female students.

Title IX prohibits sexual assault, sexual harassment, retaliation and other forms of gender-based discrimination on college campuses.

"Plaintiff's primary claim is based on Title IX," CU-Boulder attorneys David Temple and Erica Weston wrote. "This claim fails because the (complaint) alleges no plausible facts that the university's disciplinary process discriminated against plaintiff because of his gender. Instead, the (complaint) relies upon legally insufficient conjecture and non-gender based allegations that the university's process was faulty."'