Judge dismisses former UW-Whitewater student's Title IX suit over sexual harassment claims

A federal judge has tossed out a former University of Wisconsin-Whitewater student's lawsuit that alleged UW System officials failed to prevent the school chancellor's husband from sexually harassing her and other women.

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U.S. District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller dismissed the case in March after the former student, Stephanie Goettl Vander Pas, and her attorney repeatedly failed to preserve and withheld records UW officials requested as part of the discovery process in the case, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Thursday.

Vander Pas in 2018 publicly accused Alan Hill, husband of UW-Whitewater's then-chancellor, Beverly Kopper, of sexual harassment. Ray Cross, who was the UW System president at the time, banned Hill from the Whitewater campus and stripped him of his job as Kopper's associate in response to other allegations that Hill had sexually harassed several women dating back to 2015....