Ehrhart vs. Dept. of Education

Georgia state Rep. Earl Ehrhart and Mrs. Ehrhart have sued the US Dept. of Education over the infamous 2011 Dear Colleague letter. The lawsuit is available from the SAVE site here. Excerpt:

'The Dear Colleague Letter has aggressively dictated how colleges and universities handle sexual assault and sexual harassment on campus, by laying out specific requirements that schools must adopt and utilize, causing schools to brand more students “rapists” based on the excessively low “preponderance of the evidence” standard (equating to a mere 50.01% probability that the alleged misconduct occurred) as opposed to the “clear and convincing evidence” standard traditionally used in college disciplinary hearings, allowing accusers to appeal not guilty findings by disciplinary panels, and preventing accused students from challenging their accusers, even in cases in which the only witness is the complainant, out of concern that cross-examination “may be traumatic or intimidating” to the “victim,” all of which violate an accused student’s fundamental rights to due process.'