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By Michael A. Mora | August 19, 2022
"I have clients on both sides of the question," said David Miller, a past chair of the City, County, and Local Government Law Section of the Florida Bar. "The best advice I can give my employers is to sit back and let the dust settle."
4 minute read
By Katie M. Shipp, Helene M. Weiss and Daniel Pollack | August 18, 2022
Title IX is a federal law that protects people from sex discrimination in educational programs and activities at colleges and universities that receive federal financial assistance. Among others, sexual assault is a form of discrimination prohibited by Title IX.
7 minute read
By Ross Todd | August 16, 2022
U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly in Chicago denied a bid by 17 elite private universities to knock out claims they colluded in ways that held down the amount of need-based aid going to undergraduates.
4 minute read
By Cedra Mayfield | August 11, 2022
"He had the opportunity to decontaminate Keturah Hall and chose not to do it," argued appellant attorney Thomas "Woody" Gatewood Sampson II. "He can be found liable for negligent performance of that ministerial duty."
5 minute read
By Judie Saunders | August 11, 2022
Title IX has a long history of defining male and female participation in sports. Since Title IX's enactment, athletes have relied on this law to rid academic institutions of discriminatory practices in athletics. In recent years, transgender persons are also hopeful that Title IX will guarantee them increased access and opportunities in sports.
8 minute read
By Leigh E. Dalton | August 9, 2022
Because clothing is an expression of oneself, and because students do not shed their expressive rights at the schoolhouse gate, public schools must examine their student dress codes to be cognizant of those rights of expression and the liability of inconsistent and discriminatory enforcement.
8 minute read
By Cheryl Miller | August 4, 2022
Public schools are not business establishments for purposes of the Unruh Civil Rights Act, the California Supreme Court held. The unanimous ruling noted, however, that the Legislature is free to expand the law's scope to include schools.
4 minute read
By Ashling A. Ehrhardt | August 4, 2022
The proposed regulations will advance educational equity and opportunity for women and girls across the country to ensure that every student in America, from kindergarten through a doctorate degree, can achieve her dreams."
8 minute read
By Allison Dunn | July 26, 2022
"In light of the Supreme Court's holdings in Regan, Grove City College, Smith, and Cannon, as discussed supra, this Court holds that §501(c)(3) tax exemption constitutes federal financial assistance for the purposes of Title IX," Judge Richard D. Bennett wrote. "Enforcing the mandates of Title IX in schools with §501(c)(3) status aligns with and protects the principal objectives of Title IX: "'to avoid the use of federal resources to support discriminatory practices' and 'to provide individual citizens effective protection against those practices,' Cannon, 441 U.S. at 704."
4 minute read
By Dara Kam | July 26, 2022
Holland & Knight, which is representing New Jersey-based Savvas Learning Co., maintains that the state's request for information involves scrutinizing millions of emails and would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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