A federal appeals court is reviving unsettled lawsuits against Ohio State University over decades-old sexual abuse by the late team doctor Richard Strauss.
FILE - A sign for Ohio State University stands in Columbus, Ohio, on May 8, 2019. A federal appeals court ruling Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022, revives unsettled lawsuits against Ohio State University over decades-old sexual abuse by the late team doctor Richard Strauss. – A federal appeals court ruling Wednesday revives unsettled lawsuits against Ohio State University over decades-old sexual abuse by the late team doctor Richard Strauss.
that 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.”“Ohio State is a vast institution, and the plaintiffs’ allegations underscore how difficult it is for a student to know what appropriate persons within the Ohio State administration knew” about abuse allegations, Judge Karen Nelson Moore wrote in the decision.
“Our lawyer argued that if OSU had gotten away with what they were trying to do here, with getting this motion thrown out on the statute of limitations, then they would have paved the way and given a playbook for all these other universities to do the same thing that they've done, and I'm glad that this court saw through it and didn't let it happen,” Snyder-Hill said.
during medical exams, required physicals and other encounters at campus athletic facilities, a student health center, his home and an off-campus clinic.The university has reiterated apologies for anyone he harmed, and it has reached over $60 million in settlements with at least 296 survivors.