Legal Opinion
Yap v. Northwestern University
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided August 6, 2015No. 14 C 9544PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
SARA L. ELLIS, United States District Judge
After suffering from alleged sexual harassment and retaliation by the former director of his graduate program and receiving limited redress from the University once he made his complaints known, Plaintiff Jonathan Woon Teck Yap, a graduate student, brings this suit against Northwestern University (“Northwestern”) under Title IX of the Education Act of 1972, 20 U.S.C. § 1681(a), et seq. for discrimination, hostile educational environment, and retaliation resulting from Northwestern’s alleged failure to properly investigate his…
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