A Manhattan federal judge has found that the State University of New York at Stony Brook provided “prompt and equitable” handling of a student’s sexual-assault complaint, granting summary judgment to the university in a lawsuit alleging that it showed deliberate indifference to her allegations.
The plaintiff in the Title IX case, SUNY Stony Brook senior Sarah Tubbs, claimed she was raped in 2014 by a fellow student following a party, according to the decision in Tubbs v. Stony Brook University, which was issued Tuesday. She went to the police and participated in the university’s internal process for dealing with campus sexual assaults. Her alleged assailant, a then-sophomore named Daniel Verdejo, was ultimately held not responsible by a hearing board for the sexual assault allegations brought against him. Tubbs went on to appeal the ruling, but it was upheld by the hearing board.
