Victims of disgraced gymnastics physician Larry Nassar have sued Michigan State University — where Nassar was employed — over the school’s refusal to release documents pertaining to the case.
have sued Michigan State University — where Nassar was employed — over the school’s refusal to release documents pertaining to the case.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday, alleges that the school’s board of trustees made “secret decisions” that resulted in the withholding of over 6,000 documents that the university was ordered to hand over to the state attorney general’s office. The university had previously argued the documents were protected by attorney-client privilege.
“This is about who knew what, when at the university,” Nassar survivor Melissa Brown Hudecz said in a statement . “We can’t heal as a community until we know that everyone who enabled a predator is accountable. By protecting the 6,000 secret documents and anyone named in them, the board is adding to survivors’ trauma with their lack of institutional accountability.”
Michigan State University — which has long been criticized for its handling of the Nassar situation — had already settled with Nassar victims for $500 million, but the new lawsuit seeks accountability, not monetary damages. “Something happened, something happened behind closed doors,” attorney Azzam Elder said of the lawsuit,
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