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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled that three women who were allegedly sexually assaulted while undergraduate students at UC Berkeley may sue the school for a policy of indifference to reports of sexual misconduct.

The complaint was filed by former UC Berkeley student Aryle Butler, and it alleged that she had been sexually assaulted in the summer of 2012 when she was still a UC student, studying at the Wildlands Studies program in Alaska.

On July 28, a federal judge dismissed with leave to amend two civil cases brought against UC Berkeley that claimed campus administration had not adequately addressed two separate incidents of sexual assault under Title IX law.

Three women who were sexually assaulted while students at UC Berkeley filed a lawsuit Monday alleging that the campus perpetrated gender-based discrimination and fraudulently represented its safety.

A state audit report released Thursday found that nearly half of all sexual assault evidence kits at three selected law enforcement agencies were never analyzed — and that many lacked a clear explanation why.

In the wake of a 113-page sexual assault report released Tuesday by the state auditor’s office, a new pathway for comprehensive reform is laid out for university officials and legislators, although some survivors say its recommendations and findings did not go far enough.

When a UC Berkeley student is sexually assaulted and reports the crime to police, the collection of biological evidence does not start at the campus health center, but in a hospital in the next city over.

Spurred by the student complaints, California’s state auditor is examining how UC Berkeley and three other public universities in California handle sexual harassment and sexual violence incidents within their campus communities.