Northwestern hazing scandal: A timeline of events
July 19-21
Patrick A. Salvi II and Parker Stinar, attorneys representing the unidentified player, added Jim Phillips, the current ACC commissioner and a former Northwestern athletic director, as a defendant in the lawsuit July 20, with Salvi noting that Phillips’s “tenure as athletic director overlaps with the allegations that have been made.” The attorneys said they found more allegations of misconduct in the school’s softball and volleyball programs.
Salvi and Stinar spoke at the first of two news conferences that day regarding hazing lawsuits against the school.
A separate group of former football players said the team’s culture enabled hazing and sexual violence to become normalized, so much so that coaches participated. That group is represented by civil rights attorney Ben Crump and the Levin & Perconti law firm. At the news conference, Crump said the number of former athletes he has retained has swelled to 15, with clients spanning the school’s football, baseball and softball programs.
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Salvi and Stinar had said they would file another lawsuit on behalf of a second player July 19. On July 20, they announced a third complaint, similar to the first two and also involving an unidentified player from 2018 to 2022. On July 21, the attorneys said the second and third lawsuits had been filed on behalf of “John Doe 2” and “John Doe 3.”
Source: The Washington Post
