Three conservative groups are asking the Supreme Court to allow them to intervene in litigation aimed at making the Biden administration adhere to a Trump administration rule that guaranteed students accused of sexual improprieties procedural safeguards in administrative proceedings. The case, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) v. Victim Rights Law Center, court file 21-84, was docketed July 21. The petitioners are three nonprofit organizations that promote free speech and due process on college campuses: FIRE; Independent Women’s Law Center; and Speech First Inc. Among the governmental respondents are Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and the U.S. Department of Education. The other respondents are Victim Rights Law Center, Equal Rights Advocates, Legal Voice, Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation, and 7 individuals. The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure require that a person or group that wants to intervene in a lawsuit has to show that none of the existing parties “adequately …
Group Seeks to Compel Education Department to Require Procedural Safeguards in Alleged Sex Offenses
August 2, 2021
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