BRIAN GARRETT, ET. AL., v. THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

BRIAN GARRETT, ET. AL., v. THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

Aug 12, 2025

CHILD USA drafted this brief seeking reversal of the District Court’s decision to dismiss the Title IX claims of plaintiff-survivors abused by OSU physician Richard Strauss as untimely. Plaintiff-survivors were abused from the 1970s to the 1990s and did not learn of OSU’s role in facilitating that abuse until a whistleblower came forward in 2018. This brief explains how the District Court erred by not recognizing the functional and systemic obstacles to a survivor’s ability to obtain evidence of a school’s role in enabling abuse.