David Daniels Files Lawsuit Against University of Michigan

By Francisco Salazar

David Daniels has filed a lawsuit against school officials at the University of Michigan.

The Associated Press reports that Daniels claims his rights were violated when he was fired by the University in 2020 over allegations of sexual misconduct. Daniels is seeking an unspecified financial award. According to the report, a university lawyer urged the judge to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing that the countertenor waited too long to go to court. According to the lawyer, Daniels and his lawyers “intentionally sat on their hands” and denied that the university violated Daniel’s rights during the process that led to his firing.

Daniel’s lawyer argued that he shouldn’t be penalized for waiting more than three years to file a lawsuit challenging his firing at the University of Michigan. His lawyer added that the criminal case in Texas presented “exceptional circumstances.”

U.S. District Judge Sean Cox said that Daniels could have filed a lawsuit earlier while the Texas case played out.

In 2020m Daniels was fired from the University of Michigan after being accused of Sexual Harassment and an investigation found he had solicited at least three students and shared a sexually explicit video with one. Additionally, he was charged in Houston in 2019 for sexually assaulting an opera singer. As a result, he was fired from the San Francisco Opera and other contracts. Daniels and his husband Scott Walters eventually pleaded guilty in 2023 to sexual assault and were placed on probation. Daniels was also dropped from AGMA.

The countertenor later revealed that he had gotten offers to restart his career in Europe. However, he has not performed publicly since then.

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