From Judge Waverly Crenshaw (M.D. Tenn.) today in Poe v. Lowe , affirming an earlier decision by Magistrate Judge Jeffery Frensley :

[I]n Spring 2022 there were anonymous posts on social media that accused Vanderbilt University student Simon Roe of sexually assaulting women. Roe disputed these accusations and filed a lawsuit for defamation "to 'unmask' those who had posted anonymously about him." Discovery in Roe's lawsuit revealed that fellow Vanderbilt student Poe was one of the posters.

Roe and his father then "demanded Vanderbilt take immediate action" against the posters, and Vanderbilt launched an investigation against Poe for violations of the Student Handbook. Vanderbilt eventually found that Poe violated three provisions of the Student Handbook and other school policies, and the

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