Title IX / Due Process Practice Group Proceedings & False Allegations of Sexual Misconduct
Our Title IX and Due Process Practice Group has represented hundreds of students & faculty falsely accused of sexual assault, sexual misconduct or harassment.
If you find yourself responding to a Title IX sexual misconduct allegation, it's only natural to feel scared and alone. Calm your fears and evaluate your best options by talking with an attorney at Rosenberg & Ball Co., LPA.
Our team helps students and professionals across the country involved in university and k-12 school disciplinary proceedings. We will serve as your advocate and assist you in the misconduct proceedings. We work to ensure a reasonable outcome and aim to protect our clients’ academic and professional reputation and career. And where student misconduct matters overlap with potential criminal liability, our attorneys will help to navigate the parallel proceedings.
Our attorneys also vigorously defend our clients’ rights by filing lawsuits against universities for violations of Title IX or due process and against individuals who make false allegations of sexual assault. We will fight to ensure that you receive justice, challenge any evidence that is illegally obtained, and make certain that your defense is presented as strongly as possible. We can do this because our attorneys have assisted hundreds of falsely accused individuals address Title IX disciplinary issues at universities such as:
We have successfully settled many cases on behalf of our clients who have filed lawsuits against public and private universities. Our Title IX resource section contains court decisions from some of these cases.
In reaching these settlements, the firm’s clients were able to put the nightmares of their false allegations firmly behind them and have achieved meaningful outcomes by requiring the defendant university to expunge sexual misconduct findings from disciplinary records, and even by securing from the accuser a retraction of false allegations of sexual misconduct.
Press
To understand more about the firm’s practice and its reputation, explore this sampling of articles quoting our attorneys:
Mother Jones, March-April 2020 "She Said, He Sued: How libel law is being turned against MeToo accusers"
Baltimore Sun, July 8, 2019 "Ex-UMBC baseball players, part of national trend, turning tables on sexual assault accuser in court"
The Columbus Dispatch, January 28, 2019 "Comment on new federal rules for college sexual assault cases ends this week"
Cincinnati Star-Tribune, February 8, 2018 "Court rules in favor of male student in sexual-assault case"
Academic Wonderland, December 7, 2017 "Possible Win for Student Accused Student in 6th Circuit"
Buzzfeed, December 5, 2017 "As More College Students Say 'Me too,' Accused Men Are Suing For Defamation"
The Weekly Standard, November 9, 2017 "Why Campus Rape Tribunals Hand Down so many 'Guilty' Verdicts"
The Columbus Dispatch, September 7, 2017 "Title IX system 'pushed schools to overreach' against sexual assault, DeVos says"
The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 19, 2017 "Students Accused of Sexual Assault Have the Government's Ear. What Are Their Goals?"
The College Fix, January 25, 2017 "Due-process group launches campaign to 'End Kangaroo Courts' on campus, bring back 'rule of law'"
CBS 8 San Diego Interview, January 23, 2017 Click here to access audio file
USA Today, December 27, 2016 "Male ex-student accused of rape sues school, woman"
Chicago Maroon, October 20, 2016 "Motions for delay filed in Anti-Male Bias Title IX Lawsuit"
The Washington Post, September 24, 2016 "Amid tougher repercussions for campus sex assault, more men sue accusers"
NY Daily News, September 2, 2016 Male Student Suing University of Chicago over Title IX
The Daily Universe, September 1, 2016 "Advocacy Group claims students accused of sexual assault at universities treated unfairly"
The Columbus Dispatch, December 28, 2014 "Title IX often used to force students to investigate sexual assaults"
Decisions
To read the decision's of Eric's cases, see the list below.
June 2020 Doe vs Purdue University
August 2018 Doe vs The Ohio State University
June 2018 Gischel vs University of Cincinnati
June 2018 Gischel vs University of Cincinnati
February 2018 Doe vs Miami University
February 2018 Doe vs Miami University
January 2018 Gischel vs University of Cincinnati
CBA: Title IX and Student Sexual Assault Litigation, October 2017 Title IX Claims and Representing the Accused
September 2017 Doe vs University of Chicago
August 2017 Doe vs OWU
July 2017 Gischel vs University of Cincinnati
March 2017 Doe vs The Ohio State University
February 2017 Doe vs University of Chicago
August 2015 Doe et al vs Salisbury University
June 2015 Doe vs Salisbury University
To learn more about our legal services and the types of cases we handle, contact Eric Rosenberg today at (740) 644-1027 to set up an initial case evaluation.