Whether or not Mukund Vengalattore dated a graduate student under his supervision, Cornell University failed him and his accuser when it, as Vengalattore says, passed judgment without properly investigating the claim.
After the grad student filed a 2014 sexual misconduct complaint against Vengalattore, an atomic physicist and tenure-track assistant professor in Cornellâs College of Arts and Sciences, Title IX investigators found him in violation of university policy without bothering to hear his side of the story, according to a case argued before the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week.
âCornell denied him any hearing. It denied him a right to cross-examine the witnesses. It even denied him the right to present his own live witnesses,â said Richard Samp, senior litigation counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which is representing Vengalattore. âInstead, Cornell appointed a single individual as both the investigator and the jury, and the result
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2. President Biden s American Families Plan calls for changing the way the tax code handles capital gains and eliminates the stepped-up basis. However, the plan offers protections for family-owned businesses and farms who pass on the entity to heirs. The White House says the plan is a once-in-a-generation investment in education, health care and child care. – Farm Futures
3. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says the Biden administration is not out to limit your beef intake. “There is no effort designed to limit people’s intake of beef coming out of President Biden’s White House or USDA,” Vilsack said. The falsehood comes from conservative lawmakers and pundits. – The Hill
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Lower Ark Valley basin tour announced
Registration is now open for the June 3 annual tour of the Lower Arkansas River Basin tour, hosted by Water Education Colorado. This year’s tour will be held via Zoom, expanding the accessibility among water professionals, ag producers, educators, elected officials and interested community members who regularly attend. The tour will take in sites between Pueblo Reservoir and John Martin Reservoir, giving participants an up-close look at regional water-related activities. The itinerary will showcase water quality projects, agricultural operations, alternative transfer methods (ATMs), interstate compact considerations, the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, municipal, environmental and recreational priorities, and more. There will also be an interactive Q&A opportunity with tour speakers, and a post-tour networking event. The cost is $125 for members and $150 for non-members, with a limited number of scholarships available ba
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claimants challenging the appointment of administrative law judges.
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WASHINGTON (CN) The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Social Security applicants who challenge the appointment of administrative law judges are not required to first bring those claims to the agency before taking their case to court.
The six individuals who brought the consolidated suit were denied disability benefits by the Social Security Administration. While they appealed the denials, the Supreme Court ruled in 2018 in
Lucia v. Securities Exchange Commission that administrative law judges were improperly appointed to the SEC.
After that decision, the Social Security petitioners argued the administrative law judges handling their cases were not properly appointed violating the Constitution’s appointments clause – and they should have the opportunity to raise the issue in federal court.