BATON ROUGE, La. -- A jury on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit accusing top LSU officials of retaliating against an athletics administrator for reporting alleged inappropriate sexual behavior by a head football coach.
After six days of testimony, a panel of five women and three men rejected the defense claims, The Advocate reported. U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan of New Orleans presided over the trial after all of the federal judges in Baton Rouge recused themselves.
Then-athletics administrator Sharon Lewis filed the federal lawsuit in 2021. She was fired the following year.