The Supreme Court rejected Ohio State University’s appeal in one of its latest decisions that allows over 230 men to proceed in suing the institution over allegations of a university doctor’s sexual abuse.
On Monday, during the last week of its term, the Supreme Court upheld two lawsuits against Ohio State. Both lawsuits accused the university of failing to act against the late Richard Strauss, who allegedly abused hundreds of former students and student-athletes over two decades from 1978 to 1998.
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Ohio State requested that the court overrule a decision by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, Ohio, that revived the originally dismissed lawsuits. Ohio State argued that since the plaintiffs’ cases were decades old, the lawsuits should be dropped altogether.
The former students in the lawsuits claimed Ohio State officials did not pursue punitive action against Strauss despite complaints raised against him in the late 1970s. Strauss allegedly abused them during physicals and other medical exams at campus athletic facilities, a student health center, his home, and an off-campus clinic.
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Ohio State launched an investigation into the doctor and the administration’s alleged knowledge of the abuse in 2018. Since then, the university has apologized to the sexually abused victims and reached over $60 million in settlement agreements with 296 of the survivors.
Strauss committed suicide in 2005.
