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Civil Litigation

Mar. 14, 2022

Baseball players sue NCAA, University of San Francisco

“The University of San Francisco employed two baseball coaches for 22 years, despite an awareness that these coaches created an intolerable sexualized environment within USF’s Division I baseball team that included persistent psychological abuse and repeated inappropriate sexual conduct,” wrote Jonathan Selbin, a partner with Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein.

Three baseball players sued the University of San Francisco, alleging "persistent psychological abuse and repeated inappropriate sexual conduct."

The complaint also names the National Collegiate Athletic Association and two coaches. John Doe v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, 3:22-cv-01559 (N.D. Cal., filed March 11, 2022).

"The University of San Francisco employed two baseball coaches for 22 y...

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