Via: WTVD.Com
A court Monday dismissed the bulk of a federal lawsuit filed by former Duke University lacrosse players falsely accused of raping a stripper.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit rejected all claims for damages filed under federal law against the City of Durham and its police department. The three-judge panel in Richmond, Va., left intact claims under North Carolina law that Durham officials violated the players’ constitutional rights and claims that two police detectives engaged in malicious prosecution.
David F. Evans, Collin Finery and Reade Seligman faced felony charges in 2006 after a mentally ill woman hired as a stripper at an off-campus team party claimed she had been gang raped.
