NEW YORK
The Jewish Daily Forward
By Paul Berger
Published September 04, 2014.
Thirty-four former students have lost their appeal of a judge’s decision to dismiss their $680 million lawsuit against Yeshiva University.
A three-judge federal appeals court panel ruled today that the students waited decades too long to file claims that they were abused during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s at a Y.U.-run boys high school.
Under Title IX, students have three years from the time they become aware of a school’s deliberate indifference to their abuse to file a suit.
The students said that they first found out that Y.U. knowingly employed abusive staff members in a December 2012 article in the Forward.
But the judges found that the suit, “filed more than 20 years after the last plaintiff left [the school] was correctly dismissed” by a U.S. District court in January.
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