Marissa

Towards the end of my civil case, there was a Supreme Court ruling that barred emotional damages in Title IX cases.

This basically just means that you can't put a price tag on someone's emotional damage anymore in Title IX cases.

And this is a huge deal because most of the damage done was emotional.

What they do in these situations is your lawyer pays experts to come in and kind of see the psychological damage that these traumatic experiences give you.

They can kind of explain this is where she was as a person and this is where she is now because of these experiences.

I don't think that everyone knows this, but you can put a price tag on that.

For example, I was in school at this time and I was on a good path in school.

But because this happened, I was deterred.

School is going to take a lot longer.

It's going to be a lot more expensive.

I decided not to go into the field that I was going to go into.

And so all of that is lost money for me.

And that's all considered emotional damage.

And so when the Supreme Court barred that, that was beyond detrimental to all Title IX cases.

So I knew when that happened that I probably wouldn't have the best chance of my case moving forward.

But obviously, I still had hope.

The point that we got to with my case was the University of Utah filed a motion to dismiss

Basically what that means is the judge goes through the information that we have and decides whether or not I have a good case.

So they sent forward my case for summary judgment is what it's called.

Literally, it takes months.