Against the backdrop of the Trump administration’s pending changes to Title IX regulations, William Kidder posted a new article in the Journal of College & University Law that delves deeply into social policy questions around the standard of evide…
A federal court in Indiana ruled in favor of a transgender student’s motion for summary judgment against a school district whose policies did not permit him to use the facilities that matched his gender identity. After the Seventh Circuit’s decision in…
One of the most interesting and important procedural questions to arise from the spate of Title IX challenges brought by students disciplined for sexual misconduct relates to the pleading standard that courts should use to evaluate their sex discrimina…
Yesterday the Supreme Court denied a petition for certiorari that, had it been granted, would have led the Court to review a Third Circuit appellate court ruling that upheld a Pennsylvania school district’s policy of allowing transgender students to us…
A federal court in Pennsylvania denied parties’ motions for summary judgment in a case challenging gender-based inequities in athletic opportunities at Lock Haven University. The university had announced plans to terminate its women’s swim team and dem…
Investigating the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights Title IX enforcement records, journalist Tyler Kingkade discovered that the agency has a resolved at least 70 cases and found many problems with the sexual misconduct policies and prac…
I was pleased to read that all-male HBCU Morehouse College has opened its admission to transgender men. But the policy also requires all students admitted to Morehouse to identify as male for the duration of their education there, saying that any stude…
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has reportedly granted a stay that pauses a district court’s order that Eastern Michigan University reinstate its women’s softball team. As we blogged about last fall, the district court granted a preliminary injuncti…
A district court in Illinois issued a ruling yesterday on a school district’s motion to dismiss the various claims in a lawsuit filed by parents challenging its policy of permitting transgender students to use facilities that correspond to their gender…
An Equal Protection challenge to a public charter school’s gendered dress code recently survived summary judgment. But the court dismissed the plaintiff’s Title IX claim. As we noted in an earlier post about this case, the plaintiffs are a group of par…
Last year when a jury ruled in favor of Shannon Miller in her lawsuit against University of Minnesota-Duluth, it awarded her nearly $3.75 million in compensation for past damages after it concluded that the university terminated her with unlawful retal…
Today is the last day to comment on the OCR’s proposed Title IX regulations. I submitted my comment just now, and I was the 96,841st person to do so. Wow!If you were waiting for the last minute like I was, here is the link to the docket, which includes…
Some good investigative reporting in Iowa led to this recent article about the gender imbalance in athletic department travel at University of Iowa and Iowa State. Both institutions benefit from wealthy donors who offer up their private planes for coac…
Dr. Bernice Sandler passed away this week at the age of 90. She went by Bunny, but was even more well-known as the Godmother of Title IX.Her obituary in the Washington Post described how she came to make advocacy for gender equality in education her li…
Today OCR announced the long-awaited draft revisions to its Title IX implementing regulations (see also summary, here, and press release, here). As expected, the agency is proposing to deregulate education institutions’ response to sexual harassment (w…