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Posted on Aug 30, 2007

David Trail, former women's softball coach, filed suit against Shepherd University in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County. The lawsuit arises from the University's handling of anonymous allegations of sexual harassment made against Trail in April 2007 and the University's subsequent failure to renew Coach Trail's contract. The complaint alleges that the University failed to follow its own procedures for investigating sexual harassment complaints and falsely reported that Trail had resigned. The Complaint also alleges that the University had openly expressed its desire to replace male coaches with female coaches for its women's sports and that its replacement of Coach Trail with a less qualified female coach violated the West Virginia Human Rights Act.