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Title IX Blog

News, legal developments, commentary, and scholarship about Title IX, the federal statute prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex in federally funded schools.
By Erin Buzuvis, Sudha Setty, and Kristine Newhall

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Last Entry: July 16, 2010 at 08:42:00

High School Coach Litigation Roundup

Posted on January 29, 2009
Several basketball coaches challenging discrimination in high school athletics have made news recently.Lamar Bryant, fired from his position as head coach of the Marshall High School boys basketball team in Chicago recently settled his wrongful termination/retaliation suit against the Chicago Public Schools...

Obama Signs Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act

Posted on January 29, 2009
Finally! After a Supreme Court decision invalidating her claim and a previous failed attempt to pass legislation that would allow her to sue for damages based on sex discrimination in the workplace, Lily Ledbetter got her due today.President Obama today signed the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, increasing the time frame for plaintiffs to bring cases alleging unfair pay based on sex discrimination...

Tuesday Title IX tidbits

Posted on January 27, 2009
In Indiana it appears that not too much has changed since the state's high school athletics association got a letter over a decade ago from the Department of Education about scheduling boys' basketball games. Girls' basketball, at that time, had 10.5 percent of their games scheduled on Friday nights...

Deconstructing Michelle Obama's arms

Posted on January 26, 2009
If you watched the inauguration last week, you likely had to hear all about Michelle Obama's fashion sense. We got regular updates on the designers she has worn as well as *gasp* off-the-rack clothing she sported during the campaign. And then there were the many comparisons to former first ladies...

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Title IX Blog honors the memory

Posted on January 24, 2009
Title IX Blog honors the memory of Coach Kay Yow.

Tis the Season

Posted on January 23, 2009
On the heels of news about the New York City girls' soccer season moving to fall comes another story about girls' sports in nontraditional season. In Hazleton, Pennsylvania, an unnamed coach approached the school board of directors about the lack of winter sports for seventh and eight grade girls could violate Title IX...

Recesion hits Stanford athletics

Posted on January 22, 2009
Stanford has one of the most successful and largest DI athletics programs in the country. The school carries 35 varsity teams and produces more than its share of Olympians (like Kerri Walsh!).But it has not been immune to the recent economic downturn...

Breaking News: Supreme Court Holds Title IX DOES NOT PRECLUDE 1983 Claims

Posted on January 21, 2009
I have to teach in a few minutes, so for now I can only post a link --Reversing the First Circuit, the Supreme Court held today in Fitzgerald v. Barnstable School Committee that an available remedy for sex discrimination under Title IX does not preclude a plaintiff from seeking to remedy that sex discrimination by suing also (or instead) under 42 U...

The day after

Posted on January 21, 2009
Sports writer Sally Jenkins has a few things to say to Barack Obama, including reforming the BCS, as we mentioned yesterday--something she believes he can easily accomplish.No specific mention of Title IX, but number 8 on her list of requests is equal pay in women's sports...

Inauguration Day Post

Posted on January 20, 2009
Most of us Title IX advocates are hopeful about the new administration. Obama, from what he said during the campaign, seems to have a clue about what Title IX actually is. He has expressed concern with the survey method of discerning interest. Though, as we mentioned previously, we don't know much about what new Secretary of Education Duncan thinks of Title IX...

Football Hazing Incident Prompts Lawsuit, Invokes Title IX

Posted on January 19, 2009
A former high school football player and his parents have sued the Fairhaven (Massachusetts) School Committee and other defendants to challenge incidents of hazing that occurred at the hands of his teammates at a school-endorsed football camp in the summer of 2006...

NYC Schools Will Move Girls' Soccer to Fall

Posted on January 18, 2009
In response to threats of litigation by the New York Civil Liberties Union, the New York City Department of Education has agreed to moved the girls' soccer season to the fall. As we noted last spring, NYCLU was challenging the Department's adherence to a 28 year old tradition of girls' soccer in the spring on the grounds that scheduling a girls' sport in the nontraditional season violated Title IX...

News from Myles Brand

Posted on January 18, 2009
The NCAA concluded its meetings in Maryland the other day, but Myles Brand was not on hand to deliver the state-of-the-NCAA address. Earlier in the week it had been announced that Brand would miss most of the meetings because of an undisclosed illness...

Changing emerging sports

Posted on January 17, 2009
The NCAA has been meeting this past week on a myriad of issues, including women's emerging sports. Beach volleyball (which they are calling sand volleyball in an attempt to get greater interest; so if we call ice hockey frozen sheet of water hockey it could become, by this logic, less regional?) was up for consideration as an emerging sport but it did not receive the 2/3 votes required for such a distinction...

NCAA Study Examines Gender Gap in College Coaching

Posted on January 16, 2009
The NCAA has released a new report that addresses gender equity in college athletics. The report compiles responses to survey questionnaires that the NCAA administered to female student-athletes, coaches, administrators and aofficials in order to identify "factors that continue to influence women's careers, motivate women to seek careers in intercollegiate athletics, and to identify potential obstacles institutions may face in recruiting and retaining women in coaching, administration, and officiating postitions...

Whistleblower at Weatherford?

Posted on January 16, 2009
A few months ago we mentioned an OCR investigation at Weatherford College in Texas where opportunities for male student-athletes are double those for women even though women comprise 60 percent of the student body. Also in that post was news the Weatherford had recently acquired, for the first time, a full-time athletic director...

Lake Oswego HS Title IX Complaint Resolved

Posted on January 15, 2009
In response to a student complaint filed with OCR over the summer (which we blogged about here), Lake Oswego High School (Oregon) has agreed to make its deluxe video screening room accessible to girls' teams. Previously, the room -- outfitted with a flat screen TV and comfy couches -- was mainly used by the football team...

SUNY Stony Brook Settles Sex Discrimination Case

Posted on January 14, 2009
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that SUNY Stony Brook has settled, for undisclosed terms, a Title VII lawsuit filed by a female former physics post-doc. The plaintiff, Sherry Towers, had alleged that the university decided not to extend her fellowship contract after and in retaliation for her complaints about sex discrimination by her supervisor, John Hobbs...

Parents invoke Title IX during budget crises

Posted on January 13, 2009
College athletic administrators have long known that budget crises and consequent budget cuts have to be made equitably. And if it wasn't obvious before this current economic crisis, NCAA president Myles Brand made it clear a couple of months ago.Now it seems that high school administrators are learning the same thing...

More filings in bullying case

Posted on January 09, 2009
Last March, Erin wrote about a NYT profile of a victim of peer harassment in an Arkansas high school. The victim, Billy Wolfe, has since graduated from Fayetteville High School but there was, as Erin predicted there would be, a federal lawsuit filed against the school district...

Don't even think it--let alone write it

Posted on January 07, 2009
The Union Tribune in San Diego has stirred up a bunch o' trouble with a recent editorial by a sports writer calling for the elimination of football at San Diego State University. The program is economically strained and economically draining. Recently the university raised its student fee to cover some of the athletic department's budget deficits...

Stepping up to the plate

Posted on January 06, 2009
Who's stepping up to the plate? Me, this week, as the others are off in sunny CA conferencing.But also Logan Young, the Indiana teen who, along with her parents, filed a lawsuit against the Indiana High School Athletic Association which has a rule that bars girls from playing baseball when a school already has a softball team...

Changes to Ledbetter Imminent in New Administration

Posted on January 05, 2009
President-elect Obama and Democrats in Congress will give high priority to legislation that would overturn the Supreme Court's 2007 decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire, yesterday's NY Times reported. In Ledbetter, the Court rejected that ongoing discrimination started a new statute of limitations every time it occurred...

Stories of the Year: 2008

Posted on December 31, 2008
In what is becoming an annual tradition, here is a roundup of the top ten Title IX stories of 2008! In no particular order...Florida Gulf Coast University was sued by two former coaches, Jaye Flood and Holly Vaughn, and the university counsel Wendy Morris, on claims that the university retaliated against all three women for trying to air concerns about Title IX violations in the athletic department...

Women Ski Jumpers Sue for Inclusion in Olympic Games

Posted on December 29, 2008
Though outside the scope of Title IX, the Title IX community may be interested in the pending lawsuit to include women's ski jumping in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Some of my favorite women's sports blogs have been posting on this for a while, and All Things Considered covered it in its broadcast tonight...

Appeals Court Affirms Dismissal of Band Director Harassment Case

Posted on December 24, 2008
The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently affirmed the district court's decision to grant summary judgment to the Hamilton Southeastern (Indiana) School Corp. in a sexual harassment case. Parents of a former student had sued the school district to recover damages under Title IX for a sexual relationship that their daughter had with an assistant band director, Dmitri Alano...

Transgender Student's Discrimination Case Under Investigation

Posted on December 20, 2008
The Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission is investigating a discrimination complaint against Harrisburg Area Community College that was filed by a former student, Jamie Nicole Anderson. According to a href="http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/231603"this article/a about case, Anderson is a 42-year-old ex-Marine who had a 3...

Obama Taps Arne Duncan to Head the Department of Education

Posted on December 17, 2008
Yesterday President-elect Obama a href="http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2008/12/16/16duncan_ep.h28.html?tmp=196136681"announced his pick/a for Secretary of Education: Arne Duncan, CEO of the Chicago Public Schools. The Department of Education is charged with primary enforcement of Title IX, so Duncan have enormous influence with respect to policy and enforcement on issues of gender equity in athletics as well as single-sex education...

Vivas Case Settled for $5.2 M

Posted on December 16, 2008
Fresno State has opted to settle with former coach Lindy Vivas rather than continue to appeal the the trial court's decision in her favor. Last year, Vivas won a $5.85 million jury verdict in the Title IX retaliation suit she filed after she was fired for advocating gender equity within the athletic department...

Adding sports?

Posted on December 15, 2008
Columbus State University in Georgia seems to be throwing caution to the wind and adding sports despite these troubled economic times. The DII institution does not have a football program which might mean the school has a little more budgetary freedom...

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