A former Northwestern University football player on Tuesday sued the Evanston, Illinois school and its fired head coach Patrick Fitzgerald, claiming Fitzgerald took part in harassment, hazing, bullying and assault of student athletes that the university enabled.
Parts of the newspaper's report were reiterated in Tuesday's lawsuit, which said freshman players were forced to strip naked and crawl in front of the team, or forced to rub up against a line of naked men while getting sprayed with a hose as part of "the carwash."
Fitzgerald said last week that he had hired Webb, a former Chicago U.S. attorney and nationally prominent defense lawyer. Webb led the Winston team representing Fox News and Fox Corp in a defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems that ended in aThe lawsuit was filed in Cook County Circuit Court by a group of law firms that includes Chicago's Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard, a personal injury firm that has won more than $2 billion in verdicts and settlements.
More Northwestern lawsuits may be coming. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump said on Sunday that he is representing at least eight former Northwestern athletes. In a statement he accused coaches at the university of "enabling a toxic, disgusting, and damaging culture". Crump's past clients have included the family of George Floyd, whose 2020 murder kicked off protests against racial injustice worldwide, and the heirs of songwriter Ed Townsend, who unsuccessfully sued British pop star Ed Sheeran in aCrump, whose firm now has eight U.S. offices, has teamed up with Chicago personal injury firm Levin & Perconti for the Northwestern matter.
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