Michigan State’s treatment of reported sexual assaults has come under national scrutiny in the wake of the Larry Nassar scandal, and the university now faces a new lawsuit brought by a student who says that three basketball players raped her in 2015. As first reported by ESPN’s Paula Lavigne, the student—who is identified by the pseudonym Jane Doe—contends that Michigan State and the three players violated Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution.
The players, who are no longer Michigan State students, are not named in the complaint. However, in an accompanying filing, Doe mentions that each “went on to play professional basketball.