NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit upheld the dismissal of a student’s breach of contract claim against Rice University after his football scholarship was revoked due to a disciplinary hearing that began because he gave herpes to another student. The contract claim is not actionable because he did not inform the other student of the danger of having sex with him, but his sex discrimination claims do pose triable issues of fact because jurors could find Rice’s procedures have an anti-male bias.
Read the ruling here.
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