Men want retrial on Pennsylvania university sex abuse claims

Three men who lost their lawsuit against a former state university administrator over allegations he sexually abused them are taking their case to a federal appeals court.

The judge prevented jurors from seeing the official report of an extensive administrative investigation into the students' sexual misconduct allegations, which corroborated their claims, the appeal said.

The judge also erred when he dismissed East Stroudsburg and top university officials as defendants; prevented some of the plaintiffs' witnesses from taking the stand; and limited the testimony of an Alabama pastor who alleged that Sanders repeatedly and inappropriately touched him during a class trip to Washington, D.C., in the 1990s, the filing said.