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Dallas Morning News
Sarah Mervosh, Breaking News Enterprise reporter
Updated at 4:59 pm.: Revised to include comments from Baylor University and a Title IX expert
Sexual assault victims at Baylor University have until the spring of 2018 to sue if they believe the school had lax and discriminatory policies that put them at a greater risk of being raped, a U.S. district judge ruled Tuesday.
The decision came as part of an order that allows the largest Title IX lawsuit against Baylor to go forward. Both sides will now be able to request evidence and call witnesses to give testimony out of court, a much-anticipated stage in the legal process for critics who continue to accuse Baylor of being secretive in its handling of the sexual assault scandal.
In some cases, Judge Robert Pitman decided, the two-year statute of limitations should not be measured from when an assault was reported, but from when the public first learned of Baylor’s widespread failure to properly respond to sexual assault cases last spring.
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