UCSB hid federal settlement from court in Title IX due process loss, drastically lowering its penalt

[PeteS in CA]

https://www.thecollegefix.com/ucsb-hid-federal-settlement-from-court-in-title-ix-due-process-loss-drastically-lowering-its-penalty/

UCSB hid federal settlement from court in Title IX due process loss, drastically lowering its penalty
JEREMIAH POFF - STAFF REPORTER •MARCH 9, 2020

The University of California-Santa Barbara hid an agreement with federal regulators from a judge considering how to penalize the university for violating a student’s rights, according to his lawyer.

The existence of the September 2018 “resolution agreement” with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights could have led the judge to award “John Doe” hundreds of thousands of dollars in attorney’s fees.

Instead, Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Thomas Anderle issued a mild chastisement to the taxpayer-funded institution for running an “arbitrary and unreasonable” Title IX proceeding.

Lawyer Robert Ottilie had asked for $465,000 in “private attorney general fees” about a month after UCSB signed the agreement with OCR. Instead, he got $5,000 on the basis that his client’s win did not help students at large.
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Ottilie told The Fix that he gave a 50-minute argument during oral arguments on attorney’s fees in October 2018. The university’s lawyers, meanwhile, argued for only three minutes, claiming the case was moot due to the resolution of the Title IX investigation.

The university argued there was “no outcome yet that could show whether or not [John’s] complaint had been successful,” Ottilie’s press release said. The September 2018 agreement (below) shows that was false, he added, while allowing that it was “conceivable” the UCSB lawyer in court that day didn’t know about the OCR agreement.

I wonder how well UCSB's false claim will play out in appeal. Even liberal judges tend to dislike being lied to in court.