The State - News from April 25, 1985
A state appeals court in San Francisco ruled that the University of California is not legally responsible for the rape of a student in a Berkeley campus dormitory that had a faulty front door lock. The court said the university had no reason to know a rape might occur in the dormitory, where there was no history of violent crime, and there was no evidence that the faulty lock played a part in the incident. The student, who sued under the name of Jane Doe, said she was raped by an unknown man who entered her room as she slept in October, 1981. She sued the UC Board of Regents for her injuries.
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