{"id":136548,"date":"2024-02-06T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=136548"},"modified":"2024-02-05T16:53:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T22:53:19","slug":"discrimination-negligence-lawsuit-against-ole-miss-lane-kiffin-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/discrimination-negligence-lawsuit-against-ole-miss-lane-kiffin-dismissed\/","title":{"rendered":"Discrimination, Negligence Lawsuit Against Ole Miss&#8217; Lane Kiffin Dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A lawsuit accusing <strong>Mississippi <\/strong>football coach <strong>Lane Kiffin<\/strong> of racial and sexual discrimination and negligence was dismissed Wednesday, January 31, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. District Judge <strong>Michael P. Mills<\/strong> ordered the case closed. Mills dismissed defensive tackle <strong>DeSanto Rollins<\/strong>&#8216; claims of negligence, gross negligence and that Kiffin had violated the <strong>Americans with Disabilities Act<\/strong> without prejudice, which means they can be refiled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mills dismissed remaining claims with prejudice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lawsuit filed in federal court in <strong>Oxford <\/strong>contended that Rollins, a senior from <strong>Baton Rouge, Louisiana<\/strong>, was kicked off the team during a mental health crisis. The school insisted Rollins was on the team and on scholarship while seeking a dismissal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rollins did not play for the Rebels last season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rollins, who is Black, had been seeking $10 million in compensatory damages and $30 million in punitive damages. He claimed he was not supported through his depression the way white and female athletes have been at <strong>Ole Miss<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rollins\u2019 playing career has been hampered by injuries, including a concussion and an Achilles tendon injury in the spring and summer of 2022 that left him severely depressed, the lawsuit said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A message seeking comment could not be left at a listed phone number for Rollins\u2019 attorney because the voicemail memory was full.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attorneys for the school and Kiffin contended that the coach \u201cis not liable for intentional infliction of emotional distress.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They also challenged the validity of Rollins\u2019 claims regarding equal protection, discrimination and negligence and said the district court \u201cshould decline supplemental jurisdiction over Plaintiff\u2019s state law claims.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lawsuit accusing Mississippi football coach Lane Kiffin of racial and sexual discrimination and negligence was dismissed Wednesday,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":136549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[27776,27775,15701,14228,5,7067,4,655],"class_list":["post-136548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-athletics","tag-americans-with-disabilities-act","tag-desanto-rollins","tag-lane-kiffin","tag-michael-p-mills","tag-mississippi","tag-ole-miss","tag-oxford","tag-university-of-mississippi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Lane-Kiffin.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136550,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136548\/revisions\/136550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}