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thundara  ·  3397 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The college rape overcorrection

I feel like my point was missed... let me try rephrasing:

A company can fire an employer for an accusation of rape without a court order. In California at least, a landlord can issue an unconditional termination to a tenant similarly without a court order. And now it's the case that a university can (will? more often?) also suspend a student without a court order.

As you said, in each of these cases, it's on the courts to sort it out eventually if the accused person sues or if the offender has also violated civil law.

I'm not defending this structure, just asking if it's fair to equate these situations. It seems the same vein of logic pervades through all three: let private institutions and individuals sort it out in the intermediate before it is brought to court.