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Associated Press
BOULDER, Colo. -- Lawyers for two women who unsuccessfully sued Colorado over alleged sexual assaults by football players and recruits are seeking documents they claim will show the school hid information about two previous assaults.
The attorneys say a football player assaulted a female student in October 2001 and another female student attending a party for players and recruits in November 2001, where at least one sexual assault occurred. Details remain under court seal.
"There may be explosive information in those documents," attorney Baine Kerr told U.S. Magistrate Judge Craig Shaffer during a hearing Wednesday.
Shaffer will issue a written ruling later.
But the judge noted that trying to obtain the information now may be too late because U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn threw out the women's lawsuit. The women are also asking Blackburn to reconsider his decision and reinstate their lawsuit.
Shaffer also lashed out at the university, saying its responses were "lousy" when the plaintiffs tried to get information about the alleged incidents. He also said university lawyers replied to the plaintiffs' requests with "gibberish" and "mumbo-jumbo," failed to make clear what documents existed about the alleged incidents, and cited inadequate reasons for withholding the documents from the plaintiffs.
University of Colorado attorney Dan Reilly said the women's attorneys should have pressed for the evidence more aggressively, and sooner.
"A line was drawn in the sand, and they didn't cross it," Reilly said.
The women claimed they were sexually assaulted during an alcohol-fueled, off-campus party in December 2001. No criminal sexual assault charges were filed.
The women's lawsuits, which were consolidated and scheduled for trial May 31 before being thrown out, ignited a football recruiting scandal when a deposition was released last year in which Boulder District Attorney Mary Keenan testified that she believed the football program was using sex and alcohol to entice blue chip recruits.
BOULDER, Colo. -- Lawyers for two women who unsuccessfully sued Colorado over alleged sexual assaults by football players and recruits are seeking documents they claim will show the school hid information about two previous assaults.
The attorneys say a football player assaulted a female student in October 2001 and another female student attending a party for players and recruits in November 2001, where at least one sexual assault occurred. Details remain under court seal.
"There may be explosive information in those documents," attorney Baine Kerr told U.S. Magistrate Judge Craig Shaffer during a hearing Wednesday.
Shaffer will issue a written ruling later.
But the judge noted that trying to obtain the information now may be too late because U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn threw out the women's lawsuit. The women are also asking Blackburn to reconsider his decision and reinstate their lawsuit.
Shaffer also lashed out at the university, saying its responses were "lousy" when the plaintiffs tried to get information about the alleged incidents. He also said university lawyers replied to the plaintiffs' requests with "gibberish" and "mumbo-jumbo," failed to make clear what documents existed about the alleged incidents, and cited inadequate reasons for withholding the documents from the plaintiffs.
University of Colorado attorney Dan Reilly said the women's attorneys should have pressed for the evidence more aggressively, and sooner.
"A line was drawn in the sand, and they didn't cross it," Reilly said.
The women claimed they were sexually assaulted during an alcohol-fueled, off-campus party in December 2001. No criminal sexual assault charges were filed.
The women's lawsuits, which were consolidated and scheduled for trial May 31 before being thrown out, ignited a football recruiting scandal when a deposition was released last year in which Boulder District Attorney Mary Keenan testified that she believed the football program was using sex and alcohol to entice blue chip recruits.
