Tracy said this mishandling caused her a loss of future professional opportunities and inflicted damage to her career.

In the dismissal, U.S. District Judge Paul L. Maloney noted that Tracy’s attorney failed to counter MSU’s immunity defense, which shields public university officials from being liable unless a case meets strict standards, even if her allegations establish that “she was subjected to sexual misconduct and that her information in the course of that investigation was mishandled.”

Tracy “fails to connect the dots from her factual allegations to the necessary elements of her legal claims,” the decision stated. 

MSU Spokesperson Amber McCann declined to comment on the dismissal, saying that the university does not comment on litigation. Tracy's attorney, Karen Truszkowski, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday afternoon.

Vassar and Denno also did not respond to a text message and voicemail requesting comment Wednesday afternoon.

The case, filed in June 2025, was one of several lawsuits related to the saga between Tracy, Tucker and MSU, which became public after a September 2023 USA Today report revealed that Tucker was the subject of a sexual harassment investigation surrounding his masturbating on a phone call with Tracy without her consent in April 2022. 

In January, an Ingham County judge threw out a separate lawsuit filed by Tracy against Tucker, which had alleged that Tucker attempted to ruin her reputation by claiming that she was extorting Tucker and MSU for money, and claiming that their relationship had been consensual. Truszkowski said at the time that she would likely appeal the ruling.

And in March, Tracy filed a lawsuit alleging that United Wholesale Mortgage CEO Mat Ishbia used his influence at MSU to keep tabs on the university’s confidential investigation into her sexual harassment complaint against Tucker.