Welcome Guest [Log In] [Register]
Add Reply
UVA Rape Story Collapses; Duke Lacrosse Redux
Topic Started: Dec 5 2014, 01:45 PM (60,414 Views)
Quasimodo

Quote:
 
“Don’t you come away thinking … why didn’t the university do something about this frat?” Moore said. “That’s why it was so earth-shaking.”


Did any judge say that about the Duke suits?


Quote:
 


While Moore promised to be prompt, he added that it could be weeks before he can make an official ruling due to his busy court schedule. .


Did the judge in the Duke suits promise it would be only weeks before he would render his decision?

Quote:
 

If he rules in favor of the fraternity, the case will move into the discovery phase. A 10-day trial is currently scheduled for October 2017


The discovery phase can start in only a few weeks? And not after years?




(Does anyone believe that Judge Beaty was not biased and anti-the plaintiffs from day one? Does anyone
think their attorneys did not realize this? Recall that these attorneys were not amateurs; they were the best. Was there a
conflict somewhere? Did they imho give up on the cases midway, for some reason? Don't know.

MOO; for discussion purposes only)




Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
abb
Member Avatar

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/new-evidence-shows-rolling-stone-rape-hoaxer-created-her-rapist/article/2591762

New evidence shows Rolling Stone rape hoaxer created her 'rapist'
By Ashe Schow (@AsheSchow) • 5/19/16 11:41 AM

We already knew that "Jackie," the woman who told Rolling Stone she was gang-raped at the University of Virginia, likely fabricated the attack. But new evidence shows that she created an email address for her fake attacker after the alleged attack occurred.

Lawyers for U.Va. Dean Nicole Eramo, who is now suing Rolling Stone after being presented as callous toward Jackie, have presented evidence showing that an email account belonging to "Haven Monahan" was created on Oct. 2, 2012, and was connected to U.Va.'s computer network.

"Haven Monahan" was the name of the man Jackie told her friends she had a date with and who allegedly orchestrated the alleged gang rape she later described. Charlottesville police concluded that no one named Haven Monahan was currently attending or had ever attended U.Va., and photos of the man Jackie sent her friends turned out to be an old high school classmate who lived nowhere nearby and barely knew her.

The day after the email account was created, one of Jackie's friends, Ryan Duffin, received an email from Monahan with a letter Jackie had written confessing her love for Duffin.

Stay abreast of the latest developments from nation's capital and beyond with curated News Alerts from the Washington Examiner news desk and delivered to your inbox.

Further, text messages from Monahan sent to Jackie's friends appeared from ever-changing numbers linked to a service that allows users to send messages from fake phone numbers.

Eramo's attorneys had asked Jackie and her lawyers to turn over all information relating to Monahan, and they claimed they had. Eramo's recent court filing alleges, however, that someone from the Stein Mitchell law firm, which is now representing Jackie, accessed the Monahan email account on March 18, 2016. Eramo and her lawyers write in their latest court filings that this new information leads to "only one logical conclusion: Jackie is 'Haven Monahan.'"

Four days after they accessed the Haven Monahan email address in March, Jackie's lawyers sent Eramo another letter claiming "that Jackie was not in possession of these emails." Thus, the new court filings also indicate that Jackie and her attorneys have not complied with a court order to turn over all relevant materials in her possession. Eramo's lawyers add that Jackie is "a serial liar who invented" her account of being gang raped by fraternity members as part of an initiation ceremony.

Charlottesville police concluded in March of 2015 that there was no evidence to suggest the attack had taken place, as there was no party the night of the alleged incident, as Jackie claimed. The fraternity in question, Phi Kappa Psi, also holds its pledging activities in the spring, not the fall, so there wouldn't have been any kind of initiation the night of the attack or pledges to take part.

Eramo is suing Rolling Stone for $7.5 million in damages due to the story, which was eventually retracted by the magazine and investigated by the Columbia Journalism Review. Several members of the named fraternity, who say they were easily identified by information in the now-retracted article, are also suing the magazine. The fraternity chapter itself is also suing.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
abb
Member Avatar

http://reason.com/blog/2016/05/19/new-wrinkle-in-uva-rolling-stone-lawsuit


New Wrinkle in UVA / Rolling Stone Lawsuit: Jackie Likely Accessed Imaginary Rapist’s Email
Guess who created Haven.Monahan@gmail.com?

Robby Soave|May. 19, 2016 1:30 pm

Lawyers for University of Virginia Dean of Students Nicole Eramo have produced yet more evidence strongly suggesting that the fictitious Haven Monahan—the villain in Rolling Stone’s debunked gang-rape story—was created by purported victim “Jackie” herself. Eramo’s legal team is now claiming that someone accessed Haven’s email (Haven.Monahan@yahoo.com) from the server at the office of Jackie’s lawyers.

Three guesses who that was.

To recap, Jackie told reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely that her boyfriend, Haven, was an upperclassmen and lifeguard who lured her into a trap inside an upstairs bedroom of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. Haven and eight other men then took turns brutally raping Jackie.

The story is now known to be a hoax, and Eramo—who was portrayed as unsympathetic to Jackie in the story—is suing Rolling Stone for defaming her.

While mountains of evidence contradict Jackie’s story, the most damning revelation was that Haven does not exist. No such person has ever attended UVA. Haven apparently exchanged text messages with Jackie’s friends, but those messages were sent using an elaborate system for sending fake messages. It’s overwhelmingly likely that Jackie sent these messages and claimed they were from Haven.

It’s also likely that she created a fake email account for Haven: according to Yahoo, the email address came into existence in early October of 2012, during the time when Haven (Jackie, in actuality) and Jackie’s friend Ryan Duffin were regularly corresponding. Duffin eventually broke off contact with Haven when he realized he was talking to an imaginary entity.

Eramo’s lawyers, who are not suing Jackie, have nevertheless asked her to hand over all correspondence she has had with Haven. Jackie’s lawyers maintain that they have already done so.

“To be clear, Respondent is not withholding any responsive documents relating to the category identified in your letter,” Jackie’s lawyers told Eramo’s lawyers, according to The Washington Post.

But here is an interesting wrinkle:

In the most recent court filing, Eramo’s lawyers note, however, that the data from Yahoo shows that someone on the Stein Mitchell law firm’s network accessed the Haven.Monahan@yahoo.com e-mail address on March 18, 2016. Four days later, Eramo’s lawyers assert in court filings, Jackie’s lawyers sent another letter indicating “that Jackie was not in possession of these emails.”

To be clear, someone at Stein Mitchell logged in to Haven’s email address: either Jackie, or her lawyers. This undermines the notion that they have made available all documents, according to Eramo’s legal team.

And if anyone had lingering doubts, the matter is put to rest once and for all: since Jackie has access to Haven's emails, Jackie is Haven.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
MikeZPU

“Dean Eramo chose to bring this lawsuit against [Rolling Stone] and decided to attempt to prevail by subjecting [Jackie], a third-party sexual assault victim, to unduly burdensome, overly broad and irrelevant discovery requests,” the motion reads. “Dean Eramo has sought to use the court and the press as vehicles to attack and re-victimize [Jackie] and now seeks to censor [Jackie] in connection with [Jackie’s] effort to invoke her rights and enforce the rule of law.”

Jackie's lawyers are azzhat scumbags.

That they continue to unequivocally state that Jackie was sexually assaulted
after her fabrications have been utterly and thoroughly discredited is just
... I don't know what the right word is ... azzhats
Edited by MikeZPU, May 19 2016, 06:31 PM.
Online Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
abb
Member Avatar

http://heatst.com/culture-wars/uvas-jackie-made-up-her-rapist-will-fauxminists-standwithjackie/

UVA’s Jackie Made Up Her “Rapist.” Will Fauxminists ‘StandWithJackie’?
By Cathy Young

| 9:27 am, May 21, 2016

In the department of news that will surprise exactly no one, the latest reports from a University of Virginia dean’s lawsuit against Rolling Stone over its 2014 “Rape on Campus” article have revealed new evidence that the story’s main source, Jackie, fabricated not only her brutal frat-house gang rape but the handsome date who set it up, Haven Monahan.

In this latest twist, it appears someone accessed “Haven’s” email account, Haven.Monahan@yahoo.com, from the office of Jackie’s lawyers on March 18.

No need to page Perry Mason: even without this final clue, the case of the fictional gang rape was basically wrapped up by the end of 2014, a few weeks after the Rolling Stone cover story first rocked the nation.

First, press investigations showed that there was no party at the fraternity named by Jackie anywhere near the date she gave; that her account changed (according to friends) from forced oral sex to vaginal rape and from five assailants to seven; and that she had looked uninjured after a violent attack that she claimed left her bruised and bloodied.

Angry Video Game Nerd James Rolfe is NOT Sexist

Then, it turned out that the alleged rapist, named “Drew” in the Rolling Stone story but known by the Harlequin-romance name Haven Monahan to Jackie’s friends, seemed to be a ghost. There was no one by that name on the UVA campus or anywhere else; “Haven’s” text messages to Jackie’s friends were fake (and came from fake phone numbers registered to texting-via-Internet services), and his photo matched a former high school classmate of Jackie’s who lived outside Virginia. The catfishing scheme was apparently an elaborate play for the affections of Jackie’s friend and fellow student Ryan Duffin, who had previously rebuffed her romantic overtures—and whom she called for help after the alleged rape.

It was enough to make Anna Merlan, a writer for the feminist website Jezebel.com, apologize to blogger Richard Bradley and Reason writer Robby Soave for calling them idiots after they publicly wondered if the UVA gang rape story was a hoax. But not enough for either feminists or the mainstream media to call a fake a fake, instead of politely referring to “discrepancies” in Jackie’s story and piously intoning that traumatic memories can be unreliable.

In March 2015, when the Charlottesville Police Department released the results of its investigation into Jackie’s alleged assault—which found “no substantive basis” for her claims and explicitly disproved many of them—CNN legal analyst Sunny Hostin repeatedly emphasized that “we have to be very careful” not to call Jackie a liar. Asserting that only two percent of rape reports are false according to the FBI, Hostin concluded, “The suggestion that she just sort of made this entire thing up flies in the face of statistics.”

Apart from the bizarre logic—a two-percent chance is hardly the same as “never happens”—this analysis was flawed in more ways than one can count. FBI statistics actually show that around 9 percent of rape reports are classified as “unfounded” by local law enforcement; however, it is nearly impossible to obtain a reliable estimate of false reports. Some “unfounded” complaints are mislabeled as false; on the other hand, some unresolved cases and even some rape convictions involve false allegations. What’s more, false report statistics track only formal complaints made to the police or to college officials; Jackie never filed such a complaint.

CNN wasn’t the only media outlet dancing around the facts. The New York Times story never mentioned the evidence that “Haven Monahan” was fabricated, stating only that “the police were unable to track Mr. Monahan down.” (They were also unable to interview Santa Claus.) Even Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo stressed, at the press conference discussing the report, that it “doesn’t mean something terrible didn’t happen to Jackie.” At one point, in a triumph of political correctness over common sense, he even referred to her as “this survivor.” Of course, it’s virtually impossible to prove a negative. Who’s to say Haven Monahan wasn’t a shape-shifting space alien from a flying saucer that landed on the UVA campus the night of Jackie’s alleged rape?

Some prominent feminists, too, continue to treat Jackie as a “rape survivor,” even if the hashtag #IStandWithJackie has been deserted. Annie Clark, an advocate against campus rape and one of the stars of the documentary The Hunting Ground, told National Public Radio in February 2015 that “we don’t know what happened in Jackie’s case … but I do believe something happened there” and that critics of the Rolling Stone story were “attacking the victim.”

And earlier this year, the ranks of Jackie’s defenders were joined by America’s top feminist group, the National Organization for Women. In January, NOW president Terry O’Neill and the heads of the organization’s Virginia and Charlottesville chapters sent an open letter to UVA president Teresa Sullivan accusing UVA dean Nicole Eramo of “abuse toward ‘Jackie.’” Eramo is suing Rolling Stone for smearing her as a callous bureaucrat eager to sweep rape under the rug to protect the school’s reputation. As part of the lawsuit, Eramo and her lawyers have demanded that Jackie turn over her communications with Rolling Stone author Sabrina Rubin Erdely, with Eramo, and with the campus sexual assault counseling group One Less—as well as “Haven Monahan’s” emails.

NOW’s letter deplored these “deeply disturbing actions … against a sexual assault survivor” and demands that Sullivan “put a stop to what we regard as a re-victimization of this young woman.” Nowhere did the letter mention the strong likelihood that Jackie’s assault was made up and the real victim was Eramo, who has said that she received numerous emails, letters and phone calls—including rape and death threats—because of the Rolling Stone story. (Another victim was the fraternity which had its house vandalized after being portrayed as a nest of rapists).

Indeed, the NOW officials vehemently objected to the argument made by Eramo’s lawyers that Jackie was not entitled to the privacy protections afforded sexual assault victims because of overwhelming evidence that her claims were false. According to the letter, “It is exactly this kind of victim blaming and shaming that fosters rape culture, re-victimizes those brave enough to have come forward, and silences countless other victims.”

In other words: fake victimhood should shield you from exposure because exposing it as fake means blaming and silencing victims. The “logic” here rivals killing your parents and asking for mercy on the grounds of being an orphan—only that one was actually a joke.

This is hardly the first time NOW has embraced dubious rape claims. Back in 2006, then-NOW president Kim Gandy condemned defense lawyers’ portrayal of Duke lacrosse rape complainant Crystal Mangum as a mentally unstable liar, decrying it as a “nuts and sluts” defense. (The case was later dismissed as a hoax, and Mangum is now in prison for the murder of her boyfriend.) Two years ago, the New York chapter of NOW gave a Susan B. Anthony Award to “mattress girl” Emma Sulkowicz—who is not a proven hoaxer like Mangum or Jackie, but whose credibility has been severely undercut by changing stories and by her behavior following the alleged rape.

Feminists are concerned about misogynist stereotypes of the vindictive or crazy woman who “cries rape.” Yes, such stereotypes were once common, and they still exist in unsavory corners of the Internet. But just because it’s noxious to generalize bad behavior to an entire group doesn’t mean no members of that group are guilty of such behavior. We can acknowledge that some men commit rape without slandering all men as rapists or presuming that every man accused of rape is guilty (unless we’re radical feminists). So why should recognizing that some women “cry rape” be equated with treating all women, or all rape complainants, as liars? In fact, feminist groups that advocate for victims would have far more credibility if they didn’t champion faux survivors.

By the way, the judge in the Rolling Stone case ruled that Jackie’s records must be turned over to Eramo and her attorneys, obviously disagreeing with NOW. According to The Washington Post, Jackie’s lawyers have claimed that their client was “not in possession” of “Haven Monahan’s” correspondence and was not withholding any documents. But it turns out that just four days before that letter was sent, someone using the law firm’s network logged into “Haven Monahan’s” email account.

You have to wonder what the people who still “stand with Jackie” will make of the news. Maybe the dastardly Haven broke into the law firm’s office or hacked the server. Or we could always go with the “shape-shifting alien” theory.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
abb
Member Avatar

http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2016/05/haven-monahan-email-accessed-at-uva-and-law-firm

Lawyers for Rolling Stone's "Jackie" may have withheld "Haven Monahan" documents
Eramo’s attorneys file motion to submit brief to compel Jackie to turn over emails
by Caity Seed | May 26 2016


On May 16, Dean Nicole Eramo’s legal counsel filed a motion for leave to submit a supplemental brief to compel non-party respondent Jackie to turn over all communications associated with the alias “Haven Monahan.”

An update in University Dean Nicole Eramo’s defamation lawsuit against Rolling Stone, writer Sabrina Erdely and Wenner Media alleges that Jackie and her attorneys have knowingly withheld relevant documents in violation of a court order. Eramo’s legal counsel say the documents reveal that Jackie is in fact the creator of the pseudonym Haven Monahan.

On May 16, Eramo’s counsel filed a motion for leave to submit a supplemental brief to compel non-party respondent Jackie to turn over all communications associated with the alias “Haven Monahan.”

Eramo’s counsel allege Jackie — the primary source for the now-retracted Rolling Stone article, “A Rape on Campus,” which led to the defamation suit — created a fake online persona under the pseudonym “Haven Monahan.” The counsel also allege that under this pseudonym, Jackie communicated with Ryan Duffin — a classmate and friend of Jackie in 2012 — in a catfishing scheme. Jackie claimed Monahan was the perpetrator of the alleged Sept. 2012 sexual assault detailed in the article.

In January, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia ordered Jackie’s compliance with the plaintiff's Rule 45 Subpoena, which demanded she disclose or produce all communications between “Haven Monahan” and Duffin.

The Court also ordered Jackie to turn over communications between Monahan and any other individual whose name was disclosed to the defendants, in addition to any communications mentioning Monahan between Jackie and any disclosed individual.

The Court acknowledged the evidence suggesting Jackie had personally authored communications under the alias “Haven Monahan,” yet the alleged communications were never produced to the Court by Jackie or her counsel at the Stein Mitchell Cipollone Beato & Missner law firm.

According to the supplemental brief filed by the plaintiff, Jackie’s counsel repeatedly claimed that “she is not in possession, custody or control of such documents.”

However, Eramo’s counsel subpoenaed Yahoo for records associated with the email account “haven.monahan@yahoo.com.” The subpoena revealed the email account was created at an IP address associated with the University in October 2012 and was also accessed most recently by an IP address associated with the firm currently representing Jackie on March 18 of this year.

“This newly discovered information suggests that Jackie and her counsel have not been forthcoming with Plaintiff or this Court when continually and repeatedly representing that they are not in possession of documents responsive to Demand No. 15 of Plaintiff’s Rule 45 Subpoena, and raises new questions about their failure to comply with this Court’s Jan. 25, 2016 Order,” the brief says.

Libby Locke — a representative of Clare Locke LLP and one of Eramo’s lawyers — said the documents recovered by the subpoena of Yahoo “clearly demonstrates that Jackie is, in fact, Haven Monahan.”

Details regarding the pseudonym Haven Monahan would have been relevant to establishing the credibility of Jackie as the primary source for the article “A Rape On Campus,” Locke said.

“Had Rolling Stone not purposefully avoided speaking with Jackie’s friends who were with her on the night of the alleged attack, Rolling Stone would have realized that Jackie, who was the primary source for their false and defamatory article, was not a credible source for information,” Locke said in an email statement.

Duffin said he believes the pseudonym was created by Jackie in an effort to attract Duffin’s romantic attention.

Duffin exchanged messages with “Monahan,” who said Jackie had a crush on Duffin, who, like Jackie, was also a first-year at the time. Jackie later identified Monahan as the perpetrator of the alleged Sept. sexual assault, Duffin said.

“I initially became a little bit suspicious probably a week after the assault,” Duffin said. “‘Haven’ messaged me a few days after the assault, and that struck me as odd. But the overarching question that I was thinking about at the time was, ‘Why would you make it all up?’”

The importance of Haven’s identity is difficult to overstate and calls into question the validity of Jackie’s entire claim, Duffin said.

“At this point I think it’s really, really difficult to look at all the evidence that has come out and think something happened,” Duffin said. “The simplest explanation is usually the right one. I find it difficult to come up with any explanation other than it was all fabricated.”

Duffin said he was deposed for Eramo’s lawsuit in April and expects to be deposed for Phi Kappa Psi’s suit against Rolling Stone and Sabrina Erdely.

University Law Prof. Kent Sinclair said Jackie may face a formal charge of contempt of court for failing to comply with the a court order to produce documents in her possession.

“The court has inherent power to penalize somebody with a penalty of contempt, which can include monetary measures or — in drastic measures — locking somebody up until they provide the information,” Sinclair said.

Jackie’s counsel may also face sanctions if their actions are deemed incompetent or out of compliance by the judge.

“If they file papers that are not properly complete — or obviously if they lie — there would be sanctions,” Sinclair said. “If they fail to have a factual basis for what they are saying, there are penalties the court could impose.”

Locke said the most recent supplemental brief includes a request for monetary compensation for failure to comply.

“We have asked the court to impose attorney fees and costs associated with having to move to compel compliance with the court’s order,” Locke said.

Legal counsel for Jackie at the Central Virginia Legal Aid Society declined to comment for this article and counsel from the Stein Mitchell Cipollone Beato & Missner law firm did not respond to request for comment.

The court has yet to rule on the plaintiff’s motion.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
abb
Member Avatar

http://www.nbc29.com/story/32077293/hearing-set-for-uva-dean-nicole-eramo-in-rolling-stone-lawsuit


Hearing Set for UVA Dean Nicole Eramo in Rolling Stone Lawsuit
Posted: May 26, 2016 6:02 PM CST
Updated: May 26, 2016 7:52 PM CST
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va (WVIR) -

A hearing is set in the latest chapter of a defamation lawsuit against Rolling Stone over a since retracted rape article.

University of Virginia Dean Nicole Eramo will have a motion hearing on June 20 at 2:30 p.m. in Charlottesville Federal Court.

Eramo is asking to refile some briefs based on a Yahoo subpoena.

Eramo's lawyers claim a student named Jackie created a fake person who played a key role in the original article, and a fake email account. They also say Jackie's attorneys also knew about this.

Eramo is suing for $7.5 million.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
abb
Member Avatar

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/lawyers-for-jackie-tacitly-admit-she-invented-her-pretend-rapist/article/2592725?custom_click=rss

Lawyers for 'Jackie' tacitly admit she invented her pretend rapist
By Ashe Schow (@AsheSchow) • 6/1/16 2:34 PM

Lawyers for "Jackie," the woman who claimed to Rolling Stone that she had been gang-raped at a University of Virginia fraternity party have finally acknowledged that their client created the fake rapist alleged to have orchestrated the attack.

Jackie's lawyers, in new court documents filed Tuesday, acknowledged that they had accessed an email account connected to the fake rapist in mid-March. The email account for "Haven Monahan," the name Jackie gave as her alleged rapist, had been created days after the alleged gang-rape had occurred and a day before the email account sent a love letter to a young man whom Jackie had a crush on.

The lawyers claimed they only accessed the email account to confirm Jackie no longer possessed the documents requested by Dean Nicole Eramo, who is suing Rolling Stone after being negatively portrayed in the article. Eramo was described as being callous and indifferent toward sexual assault accusers, and is now suing for millions of dollars.

Jackie's lawyers had previously sent a letter to Eramo's attorneys — four days after they accessed the email address — saying "Jackie was not in possession of these emails." This led to the belief that the attorneys had lied and failed to comply with a court order.

Eramo's attorney told the Washington Post that Jackie's lawyers had finally admitted to accessing the fake email address, proving that Jackie created Monahan, "a point they've refused to answer all along."

Lawyers for Jackie had also written in previous court documents that Team Eramo was pursuing "unhinged" efforts to "harass and abuse" Jackie by bringing up Monahan. Jackie's lawyers also still maintain that their client is a sexual abuse victim.

Eramo is suing Rolling Stone — not Jackie — for defamation. Jackie had told the publication that she was gang-raped by seven men as part of a fraternity initiation ceremony, but Charlottesville Police concluded there was no evidence such a party took place (they didn't officially close the case, however).

Jackie's story fell apart even before the police investigation, when it was discovered that Monahan didn't exist and that the number "he" used to text Jackie's friends was registered to a service that allows users to text from fake phone numbers. A photo of Monahan that Jackie showed to friends was that of a high school acquaintance who didn't really know her.

Jackie appears to have done all this in order to make one of her male friends jealous. She had previously told him she had a terminal illness, but when that didn't work, she concocted the gang rape story. Shockingly, that didn't succeed in wooing him either.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
abb
Member Avatar

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/06/01/lawyers-in-rolling-stone-lawsuit-acknowledge-jackie-has-ties-to-fake-persona/

Lawyers in Rolling Stone lawsuit acknowledge ‘Jackie’ has ties to fake persona
By T. Rees Shapiro June 1 at 12:19 PM

Lawyers representing a University of Virginia student at the center of a debunked gang-rape allegation have acknowledged in court papers that the student has ties to a fake persona she once named as the ringleader of the alleged attack.

Filed in federal court Tuesday, the papers are part of an ongoing lawsuit a U-Va. associate dean filed against Rolling Stone magazine, arguing that the magazine published a defamatory account of how the Charlottesville school handles sexual assaults. The legal team representing “Jackie” acknowledged that they had recently accessed a Yahoo e-mail account for “Haven Monahan,” who the U-Va. student alleged had taken her on a date before leading her into a brutal gang rape in September 2012.

Lawyers representing U-Va. associate dean Nicole Eramo have described Monahan as a fictitious U-Va. junior created by Jackie to lure the romantic interest of another student, a practice known as “catfishing.”

The lawyers for Jackie wrote in the filing that they accessed the Monahan e-mail solely for the purpose of confirming that documents Eramo requested for the lawsuit were no longer in Jackie’s possession. Lawyers representing Jackie did not respond to a request for comment Wednesday.

Eramo’s lawyer, Libby Locke, told The Washington Post that the filing shows that “they admit accessing it, which means Jackie is Haven, a point they’ve refused to answer all along.”

Eramo’s legal team filed the $10 million defamation lawsuit against Rolling Stone in response to a sensational account of Jackie’s alleged sexual assault detailed in a lengthy expose published by the magazine in November 2014. An investigation by The Post eventually showed significant inconsistencies in the Rolling Stone account, and the Charlottesville Police Department and a Columbia University inquiry could not substantiate the allegations; the magazine subsequently retracted the story.

Eramo then sued Rolling Stone claiming that the account protrayed Eramo as callous and indifferent to Jackie’s gang rape allegations.

In the most recent filing, lawyers for Jackie wrote that Eramo’s legal team’s “unhinged” efforts to link the student to Monahan were part of a campaign to “harass and abuse” her.

But Eramo’s lawyers assert that the new evidence finally proves that Jackie created Monahan and his e-mail account as part of an elaborate ruse to lure another U-Va. student into a romantic relationship. In a series of text messages, Jackie wrote to friends at U-Va. that Monahan was a junior in her chemistry class who had invited her on a date. Then one night in September of her freshman year she alleged that Monahan and a group of men sexually assaulted after the date.

In their response, Jackie’s lawyers wrote that their client is “a non-party sexual assault victim,” who “has no desire to continue to engage in any disputes with Dean Eramo and merely seeks to be left alone.”

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2850299/New-court-documents-in-Rolling-Stone-lawsuit.pdf
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
abb
Member Avatar

http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/in-court-filing-jackie-lawyers-say-they-accessed-haven-monahan/article_2cd3daca-ca2e-5072-901c-f7f43f080e95.html

In filing, 'Jackie' lawyers say they accessed 'Haven Monahan' emails

Posted: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 9:05 pm

BY CHRIS SUAREZ


Court documents filed Tuesday reveal that lawyers representing a University of Virginia student who was the subject of a retracted Rolling Stone story about sexual assault on college campuses acknowledged that they accessed an email account connected to a man that “Jackie” had once identified as one of her attackers.

Despite her lawyers’ objections to a petition to have those emails entered in the case, the court on Wednesday ordered Jackie to turn them over within the next two weeks.

Jackie has said “Haven Monahan,” the name associated with the emails, was a third-year student at the time of the alleged attack at a university fraternity party, chronicled in a 2014 Rolling Stone article, “A Rape on Campus.”

An investigation by Charlottesville police, which essentially debunked the narrative presented in the magazine article, found that no student by that name had ever attended the university. Investigations conducted by The Washington Post and the Columbia Journalism Review concluded there was not enough evidence to corroborate whether the sexual assault Jackie described to Rolling Stone took place.

Lawyers for Nicole Eramo, the UVa associate dean who is suing Rolling Stone for defamation based on author Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s portrayal of Eramo’s professional response to Jackie’s alleged gang rape, have said that Jackie created the email account to deceive another student and gain their romantic interest, a practice known as “catfishing.”

Jackie’s legal team, which is not a party in this lawsuit, refused to provide the documents related to Monahan, saying everything applicable to the judge’s subpoena had been submitted.

Eramo’s team continued to pressure Jackie’s attorneys for the additional documents after information provided by Yahoo Inc. revealed times and dates Monahan’s email account was accessed, including when it was created in 2012.

Citing admitted evidence that links Jackie and her counsel to the email, Eramo’s lawyers say Jackie created the persona and that her lawyers accessed the email from their offices in Washington, D.C., shortly after the plaintiff questioned why those documents hadn’t been turned over.

Court records show that the email account was created just a day before it was used in October 2012 to contact Ryan Duffin, an UVa student Eramo’s lawyers say Jackie allegedly had a romantic interest in. According to them, the “catfishing” scheme may have been a pivotal precursor to the gang rape claims.

“Jackie’s counsel, knowing full-well that Jackie is ‘Haven Monahan’ and has access to the account herself, also knew how to access the account themselves and did so ...,” the filing states. “Despite this, Jackie’s counsel continues to assert on behalf of their client to plaintiff’s counsel and in documents they submitted to this court that Jackie has complied with this court’s order.”

Jackie’s lawyers wrote in Tuesday’s filing that they accessed those emails to confirm whether Jackie ever had them. The filing says Eramo’s requests are “baseless” and “offensive allegations … in her quest to wring millions of dollars out of her fatally defective claims.”

Citing the records from Yahoo, the filing says “… the email address had not been accessed for years and was not accessed at any time after the filing of this case” until Jackie’s lawyers did so.

In addition to Eramo’s $10 million defamation suit against Rolling Stone, the magazine is facing two other lawsuits related to this case. The Virginia Alpha Chapter of Phi Kappa Psi, the fraternity chapter where the alleged attack took place, filed a $25 million suit against them. And three fraternity brothers filed a defamation suit against the publication in New York federal court last summer.

The respective attorneys for Eramo, Rolling Stone and Jackie were unavailable for comment Wednesday evening.

Chris Suarez is a reporter for The Daily Progress. Contact him at (434) 978-7274, csuarez@dailyprogress.com or @Suarez_CM on Twitter.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
abb
Member Avatar

http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/11/uva-dean-defamed-in-rolling-stone-article-takes-on-major-feminist-organization/

UVA Dean Defamed In Rolling Stone Article Takes On Major Feminist Organization Via @dailycaller
Chuck Ross Reporter
6/11/20016

The University of Virginia dean who is suing Rolling Stone for defamation has asked a federal judge to force the National Organization for Women (NOW) to turn over its correspondence with lawyers for the woman whose false rape claims are the centerpiece of the debunked article, “A Rape on Campus.”

Attorneys for the dean, Nicole Eramo, allege that NOW, the largest feminist group in the U.S., and the lawyers for the false rape accuser, Jackie Coakley (“Jackie”), engaged in a “publicity stunt” by jointly crafting a Jan. 6, 2016 open letter criticizing Eramo for “re-victimiz[ing]” the fabulist.

Defendants in the $7.5 million lawsuit — which include Rolling Stone and its reporter, Sabrina Rubin Erdely — have indicated that they plan to introduce the letter as evidence in the case.

But the letter is a case of self-dealing, suggests Eramo’s lawyer, Thomas Clare. And he is asking the federal court to force NOW to comply with a subpoena for its communications with Jackie’s attorneys at the firm Stein Mitchell.

“The fact that Jackie’s counsel encouraged and participated in the drafting and publication of the Open Letter…shows that the Open Letter is not a trustworthy and independent analysis of the Article,” writes Clare, a partner with the firm Clare Locke.

“These communications are relevant,” Clare writes, because they will show that the “unfounded criticisms” in the open letter “are not NOW’s own beliefs, but rather a publicity stunt manufactured by Jackie’s counsel to attack Movant and undermine her efforts to obtain relevant discovery from Jackie.”

Eramo has faced numerous roadblocks in her attempt to compel discovery from Jackie, who has gone into hiding.

The former UVA student has refused to produce emails and text messages that she exchanged during the time period of her fabricated rape claims and with Erdely.

In “A Rape on Campus,” published on Nov. 19, 2014, Jackie told Rolling Stone’s Erdely that on the night of Sept. 26, 2012 she was brutally gang-raped at a UVA fraternity party. The piece went viral and led to the suspension of the fraternity identified in the article. The fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi, and several of its former members, are also suing Rolling Stone and Erdely.


While Jackie is portrayed as the protagonist in Erdely’s 9,000-word article, Eramo is painted as one of its main villains.

The now-disgraced reporter — seemingly reporting based on what Jackie told her — accused Eramo of ignoring Jackie’s requests for help. She also quoted Eramo as saying that the school fudges rape statistics because it doesn’t want to be known as “the rape school.”

Eramo now says that the article has destroyed her reputation and that Erdely and Rolling Stone failed to properly check Jackie’s claims.

Jackie’s story flamed out weeks after Erdely’s article was published. Three friends mentioned by pseudonym in the article — but who were not contacted prior to publication — came forward to say that Jackie’s story had changed dramatically in the two years since her alleged attack. It was also discovered that Jackie created a false boyfriend named “Haven Monahan” in order to win the affections of one of the three friends she contacted on the night of her alleged attack.

Erdely’s reporting methods — as well as Rolling Stone’s oversight — also came under heavy scrutiny. Erdely failed to conduct basic fact-checking. She did not find out the identities of any of the people Jackie claimed raped her or those that she said came to her aid on the night of the attack.

Despite all of the damning evidence against Jackie, NOW came to her defense in its open letter earlier this year calling her — without a shred of evidence — “a sexual assault survivor.”

Entitled “An Open Letter to UVA President Teresa A. Sullivan,” NOW’s president Terry O’Neill addressed “deeply disturbing actions by one of your Deans against a sexual assault survivor and member of the UVA community.” (RELATED: National Organization For Women Defends Rolling Stone Gang Rape Fabricator)

“It is exactly this kind of victim blaming and shaming that fosters rape culture, re-victimizes those brave enough to have come forward, and silences countless other victims,” she continued.

“We are writing to request that you put a stop to what we regard as a re-victimization of this young woman.”

O’Neill also said that Eramo’s subpoenas for Jackie’s emails and text messages “display a very troubling pattern of abuse towards ‘Jackie.'”

Jackie was finally deposed in April.

Eramo’s lawyers assert that Jackie’s lawyers, of the firm Stein Mitchell, had a hand in crafting that open letter.

“Counsel for Jackie, including attorneys at Stein Mitchell, contacted NOW to encourage and assist with the drafting and publication of the Open Letter in order to manufacture public support for Jackie’s defiance of Movant’s legitimate and appropriate discovery requests,” they write.

Communications between NOW and Jackie’s lawyers should be provided in discovery because Rolling Stone plans to use it as a defense against Eramo’s defamation suit, Clare, Eramo’s lawyer, writes.

Rolling Stone’s lawyers “have questioned several witnesses about the Open Letter in depositions and have used the Open Letter as an exhibit in several depositions,” the new court papers read.

“Most recently, Defendants stated that they believe the Open Letter to be relevant and that they will reserve the right to attempt to introduce the Open Letter in support of their defenses ‘either on summary judgment and/or in connection with any trial.'”

NOW has admitted to possessing communications with Stein Mitchell “relate[d] to [the] NOW Open Letter.” But they have objected to turning over the documents, claiming that they are not relevant to the case and would be burdensome to produce.

Clare objected to both claims, saying that the communications are relevant and would not be difficult to produce.

He wrote that NOW refused to turn over the documents on June 7.

Lawyers for NOW did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
abb
Member Avatar

http://www.nbc29.com/story/32219928/eramo-claims-jackies-lawyers-behind-nows-critical-letter

Eramo Claims "Jackie's" Lawyers Behind NOW's Critical Letter
Posted: Jun 14, 2016 1:43 PM CST
Updated: Jun 14, 2016 3:52 PM CST

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va (WVIR) -

More allegations are coming out in the federal defamation lawsuit against Rolling Stone Magazine.

University of Virginia Associate Dean of Students Nicole Eramo now says "Jackie" and her legal team were behind an open letter penned by the National Organization for Women (NOW) meant to smear her.

In November 2014, Rolling Stone published "A Rape on Campus" by Sabrina Rubin Erdely. In the article, a student referred to as "Jackie" described being gang raped at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house at UVA in September of 2012.

Eramo is suing the magazine, its publisher, and Erdely in a $7.5 million defamation lawsuit because she claims the article cast her as the chief villain. Her legal team has been seeking access to depositions from Jackie and her doctor, as well as other documents to help argue their case. Lawyers for Jackie are fighting those legal actions.

In January, NOW issued an open letter to UVA President Teresa Sullivan that was highly critical of Eramo; calling her actions against Jackie a, "massive step backwards."

Eramo’s attorneys believe the letter was a strategic public relations plan initiated by Jackie’s team to discredit Eramo. Her attorneys now want access to documents Jackie’s lawyers sent to the NOW.

"They're taking the offensive. They're trying to find out if there are other ways in which they've been working with some of the other - like NOW, and other people - who are raid [sic] against Dean Eramo in the public controversy and they're trying to get to the bottom of it," said legal analyst Lloyd Snook.

Lawyers also claim Jackie's attorneys were directly involved in the origin and drafting of misleading statements made in the letter.

"If it's being seen as sort of a grassroots from the bottom up kind of bubbling of opposition to Dean Eramo and support for Jackie, and it turns out not to be so innocent, that may be a real issue," Snook said.

Eramo's attorneys say this is all relevant in the defamation federal lawsuit because lawyers for Rolling Stone Magazine plan to use the NOW letter at trial. A hearing on this and another motion is set for Monday, June 20.

NBC29 has reached out to NOW and Jackie’s legal team for comment, but have not heard back from either.

http://ftpcontent.worldnow.com/wvir/documents/Eramo-Memorandum-of-Law-in-Rolling-Stone-Case.pdf
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
abb
Member Avatar

http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/16/uva-rape-hoaxer-demands-reimbursement-from-dean-smeared-in-rolling-stone-article/

UVA Rape Hoaxer Demands Reimbursement From Dean Smeared In Rolling Stone Article

Posted By Chuck Ross On 2:42 PM 06/16/2016 In | No Comments

Lawyers for the former University of Virginia student whose fabricated rape claims are the subject of a now-debunked Rolling Stone article are asking a federal judge for reimbursement from a dean at the school who is suing the magazine for defamation.

In papers filed in the Western District Court of Virginia on Wednesday, lawyers for Jackie Coakley accused UVA associate dean Nicole Eramo of engaging “in a concerted and continuous assault” on the ex-student “aimed at inflicting as much embarrassment, harassment, and harm as possible.”

“But enough is enough,” write lawyers for the firm Stein Mitchell and the Central Virginia Legal Aid Society, who are representing Jackie pro bono.

“Despite being entitled to seek reimbursement for the excessive costs of responding to third party discovery from the beginning, Respondent has not previously done so,” they state.

“Respondent respectfully requests this Court deny Plaintiff’s Motion in all respects, and award Respondent all costs and fees expended in responding to [subpoenas].”

Eramo has sought various records from Jackie — including correspondence with friends — as part of her $7.5 million lawsuit against Rolling Stone and Sabrina Rubin Erdely, the reporter whose article “A Rape on Campus” reported Jackie’s claims that she was gang raped by seven fraternity members at a campus party in Sept. 2012.

Eramo says that Erdely’s article, which relied only on Jackie’s claims, portrayed her as a villain. The 9,000-word piece asserted that Eramo failed to help Jackie after she claimed to have been gang-raped. She was also portrayed as caring more about UVA’s reputation than about the welfare of sexual assault victims.

But mere weeks after “A Rape on Campus” was published, Jackie’s claims and Erdely’s reporting came under intense scrutiny. Three of Jackie’s friends came forward to dispute her claims about events that took place on the night of the alleged rape. It also came to light that Jackie created a fake persona — a UVA student named “Haven Monahan” — in order to make one of her friends jealous. That friend, a UVA student named Ryan Duffin, was one of the three people who showed up to help Jackie on the night she claimed she was raped.

Jackie reportedly claimed that “Haven Monahan” was involved in her attack.

Eramo’s lawyers have asked Jackie’s for email records in an effort to prove that “Haven Monahan” was created out of thin air. The request is part of a larger effort to find out what Jackie told Erdely about the alleged gang rape.

Jackie’s lawyers have acknowledged that they accessed the “Haven Monahan” Yahoo! email account. But in their latest filing they claim that they accessed the account “solely for the purpose of further confirming that no responsive documents exist even arguably in Respondent’s possession, custody, or control.”

The attorneys, who insist on calling their client a “sexual assault victim,” say that Eramo has made excessive demands of Jackie which are “grossly improper and must stop.”

“This empty threat was meant to intimidate a former student and sexual assault victim that Dean Eramo had counseled into cooperating with her efforts to seek millions of dollars from defendants,” the lawyers write. (RELATED: You Can Finally Reads UVA Jackie’s Bizarre Catfishing Texts)

Lawyers for both sides have battled for months over discovery issues, including text messages and a deposition for Jackie. Eramo’s lawyers pressured Jackie’s to produce text messages that Jackie sent as herself and as “Haven Monahan” to her crush, Ryan Duffin.

They showed the depth of Jackie’s “catfishing” scheme. In one series of texts as “Haven Monahan,” Jackie claimed that she suffered from lupus. “Monahan” also claimed after the alleged gang rape that Jackie “promised she wouldnt report anythin if I didn’t talk about her or to her.”

Jackie was finally deposed in April.

Follow Chuck on Twitter

Article printed from The Daily Caller: http://dailycaller.com

URL to article: http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/16/uva-rape-hoaxer-demands-reimbursement-from-dean-smeared-in-rolling-stone-article/
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
abb
Member Avatar

http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/legal-battle-in-jackie-case-heats-up/article_be2ab3ae-374a-11e6-a76a-0f873021b76c.html

Legal battle in ‘Jackie’ case heats up

Posted: Monday, June 20, 2016 8:54 pm
BY DEAN SEAL

A federal judge is still looking into a motion to compel further cooperation from “Jackie,” the woman at the center of a legal battle between Rolling Stone magazine and a University of Virginia associate dean.

Attorneys for Nicole Eramo, the UVa administrator who filed a $7.85 million lawsuit against the magazine in May 2015, were in Charlottesville’s federal court on Monday to argue a motion with attorneys for Jackie, a third party in the suit.

Jackie’s story of her brutal gang rape by seven men at a fraternity party served as the centerpiece of “A Rape on Campus,” a 9,000-word article on the climate of sexual assault at American universities. When it was released in November 2014, the article stirred widespread controversy and condemnation of UVa and its Greek life.

When key elements of Jackie’s story were disputed by other media outlets, a Charlottesville police investigation and a review by the Columbia University journalism school, the magazine backpedaled on its support of Jackie’s account and, in April 2015, retracted the story.

Eramo, an administrator tasked with providing support for student survivors of sexual assault, said her career, reputation and personal health suffered after the highly publicized article inaccurately portrayed her as ineffective and uncaring in her dealings with Jackie. She filed a defamation suit against the magazine, its publisher and the story’s author a month after the article’s retraction.

Jackie has been a frequent subject of Eramo’s court filings. She has asked for Jackie to relinquish all communications related to her alleged rape and to sit for a deposition; Jackie was ordered to do so by a federal judge in January.

Despite frequent protests from Jackie’s attorneys, the former UVa student has sat for a deposition and turned over the requested communications, but Eramo’s attorneys believe that Jackie has not turned over communications from “Haven Monahan,” the man identified in the article as having allegedly brought Jackie to the fraternity house and participated in her assault.

Charlottesville police said they found no evidence that Monahan ever existed, and Eramo’s attorneys have long contended that Monahan was a moniker created by Jackie to engender romantic feelings in one of Jackie’s love interests.

Eramo’s attorneys said in court Monday that they have conclusive evidence that Jackie created the email account used by the fictitious Monahan, and that Jackie’s attorneys have accessed that email address in recent months, despite contending that they did not have access to some of the Monahan communications known to exist.

Jackie’s attorneys have rejected the claim, saying that while they did access the Monahan email account in order to see whether she had penned the emails in question, they have nonetheless fulfilled all aspects of the federal compliance order.

In many ways, Monday’s contentious hearing over the matter mimicked the heated email exchanges both sides of counsel have engaged in over the last few months.

Andy Phillips, an attorney for Eramo, said that if Jackie’s counsel had access to the email account, then they should at least divulge whether the emails in question were intentionally deleted.

“What we’re asking for is an explanation,” Phillips said.

Representing Jackie, attorney Philip O’Beirne reaffirmed that the documents Eramo was seeking were not in Jackie’s or her counsel’s possession, and criticized Eramo’s attorneys for attacking Jackie’s counsel in public filings over disputes surrounding the compliance order. He further accused Eramo’s attorneys of dragging out the court proceedings over this “irrelevant” matter in an attempt to hurt Jackie’s credibility.

Judge Joel C. Hoppe told O’Beirne that while he did not believe Jackie’s counsel had made any “ethical lapse” in their handling of the matter, they could not fault Eramo’s attorneys for wanting to verify all documentation and information related to the defamation case.

O’Beirne countered that the communications related to the Monahan email account were not relevant to the defamation case at hand, and asked the judge to take steps toward minimizing Jackie’s involvement in the case.

After saying that he would take time to review the case before ruling on the motions, Hoppe asked each side of counsel to be more communicative with one another, in hopes of deescalating the tumultuous litigation.



Dean Seal is a reporter for The Daily Progress. Contact him at (434) 978-7268, dseal@dailyprogress.com or @JDeanSeal on Twitter.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
abb
Member Avatar

http://www.nbc29.com/story/32263139/judge-delays-decision-over-jackie-documents-in-defamation-case

Judge Delays Decision Over 'Jackie' Documents in Defamation Case
Posted: Jun 20, 2016 1:06 PM CST
Updated: Jun 20, 2016 4:04 PM CST

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va (WVIR) -

A federal judge says he will rule in a few days on a motion to compel the woman at the center of a now debunked gang rape article to give up documents.

All sides involved in the $7.5 million defamation lawsuit against Rolling Stone Magazine went to court in downtown Charlottesville Monday afternoon.

In November 2014, the magazine published "A Rape on Campus" by Sabrina Rubin Erdely. In the article, a student referred to as "Jackie" described being gang raped at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house at the University of Virginia in September of 2012. Rolling Stone Magazine has redacted and apologized for the article.

UVA Associate Dean of Students Nicole Eramo is suing the magazine, its publisher, and Erdely because she claims the article cast her as the chief villain. Her legal team has been seeking access to depositions from Jackie and her doctor, as well as other documents to help argue their case. Lawyers for Jackie are fighting those legal actions.

Attorneys for Eramo filed court documents in May, claiming they have proof that Jackie is “Haven Monahan,” and that she created a Yahoo email account using that fake name. In the original article, Jackie claimed Monahan was the person who took her to the fraternity house.

Eramo's lawyers want access to texts and emails Jackie may have sent while posing as Monahan to prove she made everything up and that Rolling Stone should have been able to figure out the story was not creditable.

Jackie's lawyers told a federal judge they did a forensic collection on their client’s computer and phone to comply with a subpoena. They say they don't have any documents or text messages from Monahan.

All the messages in question were sent back in 2012 and from third-party phone applications.

Jackie’s legal team argued whether or not she created the Monahan persona and email as a way to pursue a man she was attracted to has nothing to do with Eramo’s defamation case.

One of Jackie's lawyers says he had never seen such aggressive behavior by opposing counsel.

The judge asked both legal teams to work together better in the future.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
1 user reading this topic (1 Guest and 0 Anonymous)
Go to Next Page
« Previous Topic · DUKE LACROSSE - Liestoppers · Next Topic »
Add Reply