Late Stanford goalie Katie Meyer's family is suing the university regarding a "threatening" letter that their daughter received the same day she died.
已故斯坦福守门员凯蒂迈耶的家人正在起诉大学，因为他们的女儿在她去世的同一天收到了一封“威胁”信。
 
The family of late soccer player Katie Meyer is suing Stanford University 10 months after her death by suicide.
< br/>已故足球运动员凯蒂迈耶的家人在她自杀身亡 10 个月后起诉斯坦福大学。
 
The lawsuit, filed Nov. 23, accuses Stanford of inflicting "emotional distress" on Meyer—the Stanford Women's soccer team captain and goalkeeper—after the university sent her a disciplinary letter on Feb. 28 from its Office of Community Standards regarding a former incident.
这起诉讼于 11 月 23 日提起，指控斯坦福大学在 2 月 28 日从社区标准办公室向她发送了一封关于前事件的纪律处分信之后，斯坦福大学女子足球队队长兼守门员迈耶遭受了“情绪困扰” .

According to the lawsuit obtained by E! News, Meyer was charged with "Violation of the Fundamental Standard by spilling coffee on another student" in a notice that contained "threatening language," including a mention of a potential expulsion. She died on the same day she received the letter, per the suit
根据E！消息称，迈耶在一份包含“威胁性语言”的通知中被指控“将咖啡洒在另一名学生身上，违反了基本标准”，其中还提到可能被开除。根据诉讼，她在收到这封信的同一天就去世了
 
The letter came followed am August 2021 incident where Meyer allegedly spilled coffee on a football player who was accused of sexually assaulting Meyer's soccer teammate. The football player did not raise a complaint against Meyer, per the suit, which states it was Lisa Caldera, Dean of Residential Education, who raised the issue.
这封信是在 2021 年 8 月发生的事件之后发出的，据称迈耶将咖啡洒在一名足球运动员身上，这名足球运动员被指控对迈耶的足球队友进行性侵犯。根据诉讼，这名足球运动员没有对迈耶提出投诉，诉讼称是寄宿教育院长丽莎卡尔德拉提出了这个问题。
 
The lawsuit states Stanford "recklessly and negligently" sent Meyer the letter after hours, and that the university "failed to respond to Katie's expression of distress" after Meyer wrote back in an email she was "shocked and distraught" with the violation notice.
诉讼称，斯坦福大学在下班后“鲁莽和疏忽地”向迈耶发送了这封信，并且在迈耶在一封电子邮件中回复她对违规通知感到“震惊和心烦意乱”后，该大学“未能回应凯蒂的痛苦表达”。
 
"From the onset, there was no reasonable basis, nor sufficient evidence, for Stanford to bring such harsh and aggressive disciplinary charges for purported 'spilled coffee,' and the threats levied against Katie by Stanford employees were unwarranted, overly punitive, without due care and reckless," the lawsuit states. "In short, Stanford employees used the OCS process selectively on Katie Meyer as a form of institutional bullying."
“从一开始，就没有合理的依据，也没有足够的证据让斯坦福大学对所谓的‘打翻咖啡’提出如此严厉和激进的纪律处分，斯坦福大学员工对凯蒂的威胁是没有根据的、过于惩罚性的、没有应有的谨慎并且鲁莽，”诉讼称。 “简而言之，斯坦福员工有选择地对凯蒂迈耶使用 OCS 流程，作为一种制度欺凌形式。”
 
Stanford denied the lawsuit's allegations, stating that they were "false and misleading."
斯坦福大学否认了诉讼的指控，称这些指控是“虚假和误导性的”。
 
"The Stanford community continues to grieve Katie's tragic death and we sympathize with her family for the unimaginable pain that Katie's passing has caused them," the university said in a Nov. 28 statement to E! News. "However, we strongly disagree with any assertion that the university is responsible for her death."
“斯坦福社区继续为凯蒂的悲惨死亡感到悲痛，我们对她的家人对凯蒂的去世给他们带来的难以想象的痛苦表示同情”该大学在 11 月 28 日给 E! 的一份声明中说。消息。 “然而，我们强烈反对任何关于大学应对她的死负责的说法。”
 
The university said that they communicated with Meyer regarding her case prior to Feb. 28, and that they provided her with a number to call for "immediate support" that was available at all hours. Stanford also said that they wrote back to Meyer an hour after her replied to the disciplinary letter.
该大学表示，他们在 2 月 28 日之前就她的案件与迈耶进行了沟通，并为她提供了一个全天候可用的“即时支持”电话号码。斯坦福大学还表示，他们在她回复纪律信件后一小时回信给迈耶。

Moreover, Meyer's family said they are pursuing the case to "seek systemic changes to improve the safety and support of the Stanford students."
此外，迈耶的家人表示，他们正在追查此案，以“寻求系统性的改变，以提高安全和支持斯坦福学生。”
 
"Katie Meyer absolutely loved being a student-athlete at Stanford University," the family said in a Nov. 23 statement. "We are deeply troubled and disappointed with what we have learned since her passing and have no choice but to move forward with litigation to achieve justice for Katie and protect future students."
“凯蒂迈耶非常喜欢成为斯坦福大学的学生运动员，”家人在 11 月 23 日的一份声明中说。 “我们对她去世后所了解到的情况深感不安和失望，别无选择，只能继续提起诉讼，为凯蒂伸张正义，保护未来的学生。”