A Sacramento federal judge has ruled that four top officials at the University of California, Davis – including the former chancellor and current athletic director – were "deliberately indifferent" to women's "constitutional right to equal treatment in athletics."
U.S. District Judge Frank C. Damrell Jr. denied the four officials' motions for immunity from accusations leveled at them by three former women wrestlers in a civil rights lawsuit that has bedeviled the university for seven years.
Damrell cast aside the officials' claims that they are entitled to qualified immunity "because they did not violate a clearly established constitutional right."