Katie Meyer’s dad and mom have filed a wrongful demise lawsuit towards Stanford, saying the 21-year-old goalie was distressed about dealing with self-discipline over an incident from August 2021.
Meyer took her personal life in late February. The civil lawsuit was filed Wednesday in Santa Clara County Superior Court. USA Today obtained the lawsuit.
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The lawsuit says Meyer spilled espresso on a Stanford soccer participant who allegedly had sexually assaulted a soccer teammate. It additionally stated that Meyer acquired a proper written discover on the night of Feb. 28 — the identical evening she died — that charged her with a “Violation of the Fundamental Standard.”
The violation put her diploma on maintain just a few months earlier than she was alleged to graduate, USA Today reported.
Her dad and mom argue within the lawsuit that the discover got here “after-hours” whereas Meyer was “alone in her room without any support or resources.” The lawsuit says that Meyer responded to the e-mail “expressing how ‘shocked and distraught’ she was over being charged and threatened with removal from the university” and acquired a follow-up e mail that scheduled a gathering three days later.
Her dad and mom stated within the lawsuit that Meyer had “an acute stress reaction that impulsively led her” to take her life. The lawsuit additionally says that Meyer had advised Stanford workers in November 2021 that she had “been scared for months that my clumsiness will ruin my chances of leaving Stanford on a good note.”
Stanford’s assistant vice chairman of exterior communications, Dee Mostofi, advised USA Today on Wednesday that the college “strongly disagreed” with the lawsuit’s declare that Stanford was accountable in Meyer’s demise and hadn’t seen the grievance.
Meyer was part of the 2019 nationwide champion ladies’s soccer workforce. She stopped two penalty photographs in Stanford’s 5-4 shootout victory over North Carolina after a scoreless draw.
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