An incident at Cornell University involving alleged gang rape is stoking controversy after a woman filed a lawsuit alleging sexual assault nearly two years after she said the incident occurred.

A young woman whose identity was shielded with a “Jane Doe” name filed the lawsuit on Sept. 16 in New York court, alleging seven members of a fraternity at the New York university gang-raped and forcibly drugged her in October 2024. The Tompkins County district attorney, Matthew Van Houten, said this week he will reexamine the case after finding at the time of the incident that there was not enough evidence to press charges against the Chi Phi fraternity members.