Jane Doe Was Not Served at Bar Before Alleged Rape, Bar Says

Moonies Bar and Nightclub is denying it served Jane Doe alcohol on the night of the alleged rape at a Cornell fraternity house, TMZ reports.

Doe, 20 at the time, has filed a civil suit over the alleged assault. She says the night was a Tri Delta sorority event at Moonies, and her lawsuit says employees marked her hand as underage. She claims she was served "to the point of visible intoxication" before heading to the Chi Phi house. The legal drinking age in New York is 21.

The bar's legal filing pushes back directly. It "denies that it unlawfully sold, furnished or assisted in procuring alcoholic beverages to any person under the legal drinking age." It also "denies that it sold or furnished alcoholic beverages to any visibly intoxicated person."

A separate part of the case involves a dispute between Doe and defendant Matthew Ingalls about how the night went. The day after their encounter, Doe told Ingalls, "You already knew when I came in I was 10 shots deep." Ingalls responded, "You did tell me you were sober, by the way, you said you hadn't been anywhere."

So there are now two legal back-and-forths here: whether Moonies served her, and what Ingalls claims she told him about drinking. The bar's answer only covers the first question. The court gets to decide the rest.

• Chi Phi
• civil suit
• Cornell
• Jane Doe
• Matthew Ingalls
• Moonies Bar and Nightclub