Late College Soccer Star Katie Meyer's Family Sues Stanford University For Wrongful Death After Suicide

30.11.2022 - 19:13 / perezhilton.com

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The family of late Stanford University soccer goalie Katie Meyer is suing the school over her death.

As we’ve been reporting, the college student, who starred on the women’s soccer team at Stanford, died by suicide this past spring. It has since been revealed she was sent a disciplinary letter by school officials regarding an incident in which she reportedly threw coffee on a football player who’d been accused of sexually assaulting one of Meyer’s teammates.

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Late last week, Meyer’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Stanford. In it, the grieving family accuses the college of “inflicting emotional distress” upon the late captain of the school’s soccer team.

According to E! News, which obtained a copy of the suit on Tuesday, Stanford charged Meyer with “Violation of the Fundamental Standard by spilling coffee on another student” over the alleged incident with the football player. However, Meyer’s family claims the school used “threatening language” and mentioned the possibility of expulsion in their correspondence with her, which occurred on February 28. Hours after she received the letter, according to the lawsuit, Meyer died by suicide.

Per the suit, it appears the football player in question did not raise a complaint against Meyer. Instead, the suit names Stanford’s Dean of Residential Education, Lisa Caldera, as the person who first brought the citation. Caldera’s team, the lawsuit claims, “recklessly and negligently” sent their disciplinary notice to Meyer at night and then “failed to respond to Katie’s expression of distress.” Meyer was “shocked and distraught” over being accused