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Attorney Andrew Miltenberg of Nesenoff & Miltenberg LLP, who represents dozens of accused students, says the “pushback” from universities is unfortunate. “It’s a stubborn ‘we’re still

Secretary Betsy DeVos rolled back President Obama’s aggressive guidelines into investigating allegations of sexual assault on campus. She replaced those guidelines with new interim instructions that allow universities...

The announcement was applauded by critics who say the rules are unfairly stacked against students accused of sexual assault, while advocacy groups for victims denounced DeVos’s message as a step backward. Andrew...

The guidance released in 2011 and then updated in 2014 instructed universities to use a “preponderance of the evidence” standard when assessing and investigating a claim of sexual assault. … Andrew...

The Trump administration on Friday scrapped Obama-era guidance on investigating campus sexual assault, replacing it with new instructions that allow universities to require higher standards of evidence when handling...