On the morning of August 1, 2024, Title IX experts from TNG Consulting and ATIXA participated in a webinar hosted by the Department of Education (ED) regarding the 2024 Title IX Rule. During the session, U.S. Secretary of...more
8/2/2024
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NABITA membership has more than doubled over the past couple of years. To orient new members seeking to implement the NABITA Case Management Standards and Best Practices, and to provide long-standing members an opportunity to...more
Doe v. Rice University, No. 21-20555, 2023 WL 3373316 (5th Cir. 2023) -
Rice University (“the University”) investigated and suspended Doe, an undergraduate student-athlete, first for failing to disclose his herpes...more
On May 19, 2023, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) entered into a resolution agreement (“Agreement”) with Forsyth County Schools (“District”) in Georgia. The Agreement resolved a complaint that the...more
Following significant enrollment declines during the COVID-19 pandemic, many institutions are renewing their focus on student retention. One common obstacle stems from students’ lack of awareness of support resources. In the...more
Title IX Coordinators are just like everyone else. They take leaves of absence for health-related reasons or family matters. They may accept a promotion or a new role elsewhere. They get burned out by the work or burned by...more
Soule v. Connecticut Association of Schools, 21-1365-cv (2d Cir., December 16, 2022)
Four cisgender Connecticut high school track student-athletes(“Plaintiffs”) sued the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference...more
Federal Court says Title IX Covers Off-Campus Sexual Assault after University System Granted Multiple Transfers for Serial Offender -
Doe v. Board of Supervisors of the University of Louisiana System...more
The School Board expelled two students, Epple and Chen, after their violent and racist Instagram posts about classmates circulated around their high school. The students challenged the school board’s ability to discipline...more
Adams v. School Board of St. John’s County, 3:17-cv-00739, 2022 WL 18003879 (11th Cir. 2022)
Adams, a transgender boy, sued the board of his Florida school district (“the School Board”) after his high school prohibited...more
2/21/2023
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4:22-cv-304/324, 2022 WL 16985720 (N.D. Fla, 2022) -
The Individual Freedom Act (IFA), otherwise known as the Stop WOKE Act, became law in April 2022 and banned professors at public institutions from endorsing certain...more
Throughout the country, students continue to face challenges meeting their basic needs. In response, many institutions have identified existing basic needs resources in the community or, conversely, developed their own...more
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On August 23, 2022, the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) entered into a resolution agreement with Kyrene School District (“the District”) in Tempe, Arizona. OCR investigated whether the District failed...more
Snyder-Hill v. Ohio State University, Nos. 21-3981/3991, (6th Cir., September 14, 2022).
Between 1978 and 1998, an Ohio State University (“the University”) team doctor and faculty member sexually abused student-athletes...more
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The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) opened a compliance review of California’s Victor Valley Union High School District (“the District”) in August 2014 to examine whether...more
The CEO of a community college in Connecticut (“Plaintiff”) sued the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities System (“System”) over claims of gender discrimination and won. Plaintiff also alleged violations of her First...more
Two Florida employers and a diversity consultant (“Plaintiffs”) sued for an injunction to halt enforcement of the Individual Freedom Act (IFA), more colloquially known as the STOP WOKE Act. The IFA expanded the definition of...more
This case is an “en banc rehearing” of a case the Fourth Circuit decided in 2021. For more information on that decision, please click here....more
Vander Pas, a former undergraduate and graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (UWW), reported repeated sexual harassment by the husband (“Hill”) of a senior member of the University’s leadership. Vander...more
In our ATIXA newsletter in May 2022, we briefly analyzed a Supreme Court decision, Cummings v. Premier Rehab, in which the Court held that plaintiffs may not recover emotional distress damages under the discrimination...more
A.M., by her mother and next friend, E.M. v. Indianapolis Public Schools, No: 1:22-cv-01075-JMS-DLP; Federal District Court, Southern District of Indiana
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A.M. is a 10-year-old transgender girl and a rising fifth grader...more
E.H., a female student at Cuyama Valley High School (“Cuyama”), played on the Cuyama varsity football team. An opponent, Valley Christian Academy (“VCA”), discovered the student’s gender when she removed her helmet at the end...more
Twenty states sued to halt enforcement of the Department of Education’s (ED) guidance implementing Executive Order No. 13988, titled “Executive Order on Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity...more
On June 23, 2022, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a resolution letter (“Letter”) to Tamalpais Union School District (“the District”) upon completion of its investigation into a Title IX...more
Title IX practitioners are accustomed to thinking that EPA means “education program or activity,” but this time we mean the actual federal agency charged with environmental regulations. West Virginia v. Environmental...more