| Columbia
Affiliate Was Sued For Rape Got 10 Years
of Mental Records Sealed, Now 2d Case
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
July 12 – Yutong
Jin sued Columbia
University affiliate Solomon
Choi for sexual assault. He
has asked for ten years of her
medical and mental
records.
On January
12 U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil held a
proceeding. Inner City Press
covered it, and then reported
some of it. Then it
covered the next conference on
February 23, at the top of
which the parties were told
that it was a public
proceeding that the public had
accessed.
Judge
Vyskocil to her credit told
Choi's two lawyers it was not
fair for them to "tag team" a
pro se plaintiff. They replied
that since the plaintiff is
accusing their client of given
her a venereal disease, they
have a right to know if she
ever had one.
Why not
just two years before?
Because, they argued, if she
had it she would stop getting
treatment.
The complaint
cites a South Korean drama,
"Descendants of the Sun." We
left out other details.
On February 23,
Judge Vyskocil put the parties
on notice again, the call-in
information was on ECF and was
being used. The pro se
plaintiff has made many filing
since the last conference,
including messages with
Solomon Choi, from her as
Scarlett Jin. Choi says, "I
kissed girl on my birthday but
it didn't lead to anything
more. And I also made out with
someone during finals but
again, it didn't lead to
anything more."
On
May 17, after Magistrate Judge
Stewart D. Aaron scheduled a
show-cause hearing on
dismissing the case, two
filings have been made, "to
file case under seal" and
"request for filing under
seal." Both say, "You do not
have permission to view this
document."
But now on July
12, another case: Jane Doe v.
Trustees of Columbia
University, et al.,
21-cv-5839. The complaint,
assigned to Judge Ramos,
recounts reaching out to
Defendant who suggested
Plaintiff "watch a Korean dram
called Descendant of the Sun
in his bed."
Are these the
same events? Or just the same
Korean drama and defendant?
The two complaints have
different addresses and phone
numbers. But the drama is the
same.
This case is Jane
Doe v.
Trustees of
Columbia
University, et
al.,
21-cv-5839
(Ramos).
This first case
is Jin v. Choi, 20-cv-9129
(Vyskocil / Aaron)
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