Coach-athlete sex, rape and PEDs at Huntington University? Nick Johnson scandal gets grimmer thanks to David Woods expose

Any chance AW has to testify under oath re: PEDs? Pretty sure it crash the boards here on LRC if so.

Does anyone have an update on where the civil case is in process? The last I thought I heard was that the judge was going to review evidence on whether there was grounds to keep Huntington/Huntington university leadership involved in the suit as defendants.

The motion by a defense team to request a lawsuit being dismissed is a typical starting point. Whatever the coming decision is, it will obviously have big implications.

I assume that Huntington's representation has been working a lot/worked a lot to establish their claim that this is a non-suit.

Case update:

The judge dismissed the plaintiffs' federal Title IX claims against the University in a 14 page decision. The judge held that the plaintiffs did not sufficiently plead in their complaint that an appropriate person (a member of the university with sufficient authority) had actual knowledge of the plaintiffs' sexual abuse claims. The judge did not hold that the sexual abuse/battery did not happen, just that the requisite actual knowledge by the university was not demonstrated in the complaint.

The judge gave the plaintiffs a final opportunity to amend the complaint to replead their Title IX claims.

The judge did not dismiss the plaintiffs' 22 state law claims. More specifically, those were dismissed but without prejudice because the sole basis for federal jurisdiction (the title IX claims) had been dismissed. The plaintiffs can bring the state law claims in state court.

The plaintiffs attorney will likely appeal the decision.

The decision also did not address any of the doping allegations made by the plaintiffs.

The state criminal prosecution against Nick Johnson is still proceeding.

As a reminder, this thread was made registered user only because when the story broke the board was subject to a sustained spamming and denial of service attack. There was another thread today that discussed the subject, but as is typical for this subject university/Johnson partisans immediately swarmed the board with disinformation that the decision was allegedly a full exoneration and a complete refutation of the lawsuit and its claims. It wasn't, just a dismissal of the Title IX claims.

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False. Rojo made it a registered user only thread starting from the first post.

You missed what preceded it. Everytime the topic came up the thread was relentlessly spammed. They had not yet uncovered ip scramblers and the joys of autodeleting.

Ok. I may be mistaken then. Apologies.

Also, like you, I have gotten downvotes to an extent that don't make sense and perhaps some autodeletes, too (though I am not as sure about that).

Does the recent ruling not give you any pause about the claims? You speak quite definitively as though you know some things for certain, and I am not sure where that is coming from. Is it just schtick of making claims of what's certainly true based on life experience of likely things?

I think that the ruling from the judge certainly gives pause about the claims.

But the ruling is that the claims, in their currently submitted form, do not have enough specific details to allow Huntington University to be tried as a defendant in the civil case. Specifically that Huntigton knew about the claimed behaviors/abuse and swept it under the rug.

This may be because the current case submitted by the plaintiffs needs to be re-worked and language/details need to be more specific (they have until 12/6 to clarify and resubmit). Or because the details of the case do not support that Huntington should be one of the defendants in what has occurred.

We do have police testimony from 2019/2020 where the Huntington track/cross country coach admitted to sleeping with multiple team athletes, a sex addiction, and the spouse of that coach said that she knew about it and did not report it to the school.

What this may all be is a situation in which there was a lot of wrong, but the university was not aware and may not have been apart to wrong doing in any way.

The coach still has the past police record of activity with a minor, false identity, and is currently indicted for sexual battery.

So I do have pause about the claims. However, r it's not that the claims or all claims are false. More so that within our legal system, the claims do not meet the threshold to bring a case to fruition involving the school.