The school said the athlete was an adult when the relationship took place and it had no information that Kearney had any other similar relationships.

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And it became clear that the president had no intention of making his relationship with a subordinate federal employee an issue in that civil rights case, no matter what the federal courts told him he needed to answer.

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Group Lotus had applied for a summary judgement - where a judge decides a case there and then and stops it going to a full trial - that it was within its rights to end its relationship with Fernandes and that he had no rights to use the Lotus name.

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There was no way for Te'o to know the relationship was a hoax because it had been conducted strictly online and on the phone, said director Jack Swarbrick.

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