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Late Stanford goalie Katie Meyer's household is suing the assemblage regarding a "threatening" missive that their girl received the aforesaid time she died.
Stanford Soccer Star Katie Meyer's Parents Speak Out After Suicide
The household of precocious shot player Katie Meyer is suing Stanford University 10 months aft her decease by suicide.
The lawsuit, filed Nov. 23, accuses Stanford of inflicting "emotional distress" connected Meyer—the Stanford Women's shot squad skipper and goalkeeper—after the assemblage sent her a disciplinary missive connected Feb. 28 from its Office of Community Standards regarding a erstwhile incident.
According to the lawsuit obtained by E! News, Meyer was charged with "Violation of the Fundamental Standard by spilling java connected different student" successful a announcement that contained "threatening language," including a notation of a imaginable expulsion. She died connected the aforesaid day she received the letter, per the suit
The missive came followed a November 2021 incident wherever Meyer allegedly spilled java connected a shot subordinate who was accused of sexually assaulting Meyer's shot teammate. The shot subordinate did not rise a ailment against Meyer, per the suit, which states it was Lisa Caldera, Dean of Residential Education, who raised the issue.
The suit states Stanford "recklessly and negligently" sent Meyer the letter after hours, and that the assemblage "failed to respond to Katie's look of distress" aft Meyer wrote backmost successful an email she was "shocked and distraught" with the usurpation notice.
"From the onset, determination was nary tenable basis, nor capable evidence, for Stanford to bring specified harsh and assertive disciplinary charges for purported 'spilled coffee,' and the threats levied against Katie by Stanford employees were unwarranted, overly punitive, without owed attraction and reckless," the suit states. "In short, Stanford employees utilized the OCS process selectively connected Katie Meyer arsenic a signifier of organization bullying."
Stanford denied the lawsuit's allegations, stating that they were "false and misleading."
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"The Stanford assemblage continues to grieve Katie's tragic decease and we sympathize with her household for the unimaginable symptom that Katie's passing has caused them," the assemblage said successful a Nov. 28 connection to E! News. "However, we powerfully disagree with immoderate assertion that the assemblage is liable for her death."
The assemblage said that they communicated with Meyer regarding her lawsuit anterior to Feb. 28, and that they provided her with a fig to telephone for "immediate support" that was disposable astatine each hours. Stanford besides said that they wrote backmost to Meyer an hr aft her replied to the disciplinary letter.
Moreover, Meyer's family said they are pursuing the lawsuit to "seek systemic changes to amended the information and enactment of the Stanford students."
"Katie Meyer perfectly loved being a student-athlete astatine Stanford University," the household said successful a Nov. 23 statement. "We are profoundly troubled and disappointed with what we person learned since her passing and person nary prime but to determination guardant with litigation to execute justness for Katie and support aboriginal students."
If you oregon idiosyncratic you cognize needs help, delight telephone the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline astatine 1-800-273-TALK (8255).
