"According to the lawsuit, Camille Rich and her ex-husband, Stephen M. Rich, also a professor at USC Law, and now a vice dean of the law school, divorced in 2019. During the divorce process, Camille filed a Title IX complaint alleging Stephen was carrying on an affair with a student. In the lawsuit, Camille says years of dealing with a hostile work environment and the implosion of her marriage left her with PTSD, trauma she says worsened when she learned Stephen's relationship with the student was ongoing."
"Camille claims the university conducted a "perfunctory and sham inquiry" into her Title IX complaints, dismissing them as unfounded without even interviewing Stephen. She says that instead of protecting her, USC officials retaliated by denying disability accommodations she needed for PTSD, refusing to restore lost pay for trauma-related absences, and handing her poor performance evaluations. She also alleges that then-dean and current provost Andrew Guzman denied her request to cap class sizes, and that Guzman's personal friendship with Stephen made impartial review impossible."
Professor Camille Rich filed a federal lawsuit alleging that USC ignored her Title IX complaint that her ex-husband, Stephen M. Rich, had an affair with a student and later married that student. The lawsuit alleges years of a hostile work environment and the dissolution of her marriage caused PTSD that worsened upon learning the relationship continued. Rich alleges USC conducted a perfunctory inquiry, dismissed complaints without interviewing Stephen, and retaliated by denying disability accommodations, refusing to restore lost pay for trauma-related absences, and issuing poor performance evaluations. The suit claims conflicts of interest involving then-dean Andrew Guzman and Stephen.
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