A federal judge in Virginia found Thursday that former George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School professor Joshua Wright cannot stop a Title IX investigation into claims that he used his academic influence to seduce female law students—dismissing all but one of his claims against the university.
In a decision released Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles denied Wright’s motion for a preliminary injunction against George Mason and the school’s Title IX coordinator, Thomas Bluestein. George Mason filed a motion to dismiss the multiple-count complaint in Wright v. The Rector and Visitors of George Mason University, arguing that Wright’s First Amendment claim cannot proceed as the university had to be able to investigate, and that Bluestein had qualified immunity protections, among others.