The decision means that lawsuits filed against Ohio State University over its handling of sexual abuse by Richard Strauss can move forward.
in Sept. 2021, acknowledging that hundreds of young men were abused by the late doctor — who died by suicide in 2005 — but agreeing with the university's argument that the statute of limitations had expired.
Two of the three judges on the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that heard the case agreed with them, saying in athat the men"plausibly allege a decades-long cover up," and"adequately allege that they did not know and could not reasonably have known that Ohio State injured them until 2018." Judge Ralph B. Guy Jr. dissented with the decision, writing that the clock on the claims ran out decades ago and that the court’s decision “effectively nullifies any statute of limitations for Title IX claims based on sexual harassment.”
The 230-page investigative report from Seattle-based law firm Perkins Coie concluded university officials were aware of complaints against Strauss. Investigators found that university personnel knew about Strauss'"sexually abusive treatment" of male student-patients as early as 1979, but"complaints and reports about Strauss' conduct were not elevated beyond the Athletics Department or Student Health until 1996.
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