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Sexual harassment accusers are ‘scorned former lovers,’ onetime regulation prof’s swimsuit says
A former regulation and economics professor at George Mason College has filed a $108 million defamation lawsuit towards two girls. Picture from Shutterstock.
A George Mason College regulation professor who resigned in August following sexual harassment allegations says in a lawsuit two of his accusers are “scorned former lovers.”
Former regulation and economics professor Joshua D. Wright filed a $108 million defamation suit towards the 2 girls Aug. 24, report Law.com, Above the Law and Law360.
Wright can be a former commissioner with the Federal Commerce Fee.
One defendant is Kirkland & Ellis companion Elyse Dorsey, and one other is Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer counsel Angela Landry. Wright alleges that the 2 girls “launched into a vendetta to destroy his repute, painting themselves as #MeToo victims, and make a fortune within the course of.”
Wright says the ladies “focused his employers and his shoppers, and threated additional reputational injury if he didn’t pay them a number of million {dollars}. When he refused, they went to the press.”
Each girls had been incensed when Wright ended his relationships with them, his swimsuit alleges.
The allegations towards Wright surfaced in an Aug. 14 Law360 article. The 2 girls mentioned they had been first-year regulation college students once they met Wright, who abused his energy to provoke sexual relationships.
Dorsey instructed Law360 that she although that she had no alternative when Wright initiated a sexual relationship after she turned his analysis assistant. The connection continued on an off-and-on foundation till 2021. That very same yr, Dorsey filed a Title IX grievance towards Wright.
Landry instructed Law360 that her sexual relationship with Wright started her 1L yr and continued all through regulation faculty. It started once more when Wright requested Landry to work as an legal professional adviser to him on the FTC.
Each girls mentioned Wright’s skilled help ended after the breakups.
Landry and Dorsey mentioned they agreed to return ahead after Christa Laser, a professor on the Cleveland State College School of Legislation, mentioned in a social media put up Wright requested her out on a date after she met with him to debate becoming a member of the George Mason College school. Laser mentioned she reported the incident to the regulation faculty.
Landry and Dorsey launched this assertion to Law360: “We all know what we skilled. This lawsuit reveals the lengths to which Wright will go to maintain us from telling the reality. Survivors shouldn’t face a [$100 million] lawsuit for coming ahead about what they skilled as college students.”
Wright issued this assertion to Law360: “Each relationship I’ve ever been in was 100% mutual and consensual, some in query spanning a number of years and one much more than decade.
“I’m totally accountable for the choices I made as an untrue husband. I’ve realized from these errors and can at all times really feel regret for my ex-wife and my household, as I damage these I take care of and love,” the assertion mentioned. “As an legal professional, public servant and educational, I’ve by no means let any relationship impair my skilled duties. Whereas I make no excuses for my private shortcomings, I stand by my character and profession, will at all times struggle for the reality, and can vehemently defend myself towards baseless lies spun as a scheme for private monetary achieve and notoriety.”
The college mentioned in a press release to Legislation.com it might’t touch upon employment issues.
