LAWRENCE, Kan. — A judge dismissed a lawsuit against the University of Kansas by parents of two former rowers who allege they were sexually assaulted by a Jayhawk football player in a campus dorm.
Douglas County District Judge B. Kay Hoff ruled, among other things, that the former rowers have left the university and no longer face an immediate threat of harm, The Kansas City Star reported.
The lawsuit initially filed in March 2016 by James and Amanda Tackett claimed that when recruiting their daughter to attend and row for Kansas, the school falsely advertised safe residence halls and violated the Kansas Consumer Protection Act. The suit claimed the university knew there had been sexual assaults in its dorms.
James McClure and daughter Sarah McClure later joined the lawsuit, with Sarah McClure alleging she was sexually assaulted in 2015 by the same football player who rowing teammate Daisy Tackett said had sexually assaulted her a year earlier.
An attorney for the families said Tuesday that they will appeal Hoff’s ruling.
The Associated Press generally doesn’t identify victims of alleged sexual assault, but Tackett and McClure have said they want their names used.
No charges were filed against the player, but he was banned from campus in 2016.
