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Former San Jose State University women’s volleyball assistant coach Melissa Batie-Smoose has filed a lawsuit against the Board of Trustees of the California State University (CSU) system. SJSU is one of 23 California-based schools that are part of the CSU system.

Batie-Smoose’s contract was not renewed when it expired in February, after being suspended from the team in the middle of the season for filing a Title IX complaint over the program’s handling of a transgender athlete on its team and a female player who objected to the trans athlete.

Now, Batie-Smoose is alleging wrongful termination, claiming she “suffered and continues to suffer lost wages, loss of professional reputation and opportunity, emotional distress, and other damages.”

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