UIUC Amended COC Complaint
IN THE COURT OF CLAIMS OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS XINGJIAN SUN and ) XING ZHAO, ) No.: ) Claimants, ) Amount claimed: $11,737,601.90 ) v. ) ) BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE ) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, ) ) Respondent. ) ) AMENDED VERIFIED PETITION FOR RELIEF Claimants XINGJIAN SUN, also known as Vina or Narcissa Sun (“Sun”) and XING ZHAO, also known as Ely Zhao (“Zhao”), by and through their undersigned attorneys, hereby allege as follows: NATURE OF THE CLAIM Claimants’ claims against Respondent sound in contract (705 ILCS § 505/8(b)) and the laws of the State of Illinois (705 ILCS §505/8(a)).1 They arise out of the chronic failure of the University of Illinois (the “University”) and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (“UIUC”) to protect Claimants, two Chinese nationals, from abuse by Gang “Gary” Xu (“Xu”), associate professor and head of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (“EALC”) 1 Claimants entered into a tolling agreement with the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on September 19, 2019. Written notice of termination of the agreement was given by the University of Illinois on December 17, 2020. The terms of the agreement state that termination of the tolling agreement is effective 30 days from written notice, or Saturday, January 16, 2021. Plaintiffs filed the Verified Petition for Relief in this matter on January 15, 2021. Page 1 of 101 and a serial abuser and violent rapist, even after being put on repeated notice of his abuse and mistreatment of UIUC students. Instead, the University helped this professor as he perpetrated horrific abuse against his students, including trafficking them.
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