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On May 23, 2025, the First Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the National Labor Relations Board’s 2024 decision that police sergeants and sergeant detectives in Northeastern University’s police department were statutory...more
On May 29, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held in Oldham v. Pennsylvania State Univ., No. 22-2056 (3d Cir. May 29, 2025) that Title IX may allow for claims by non-students and non-employees. In the...more
On May 29, 2025, in Oldham v. Pa. State University, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals held that the “zone of interest” test applies to Title IX claims. See No. 22-2056, 2025 WL 1524452 (3d Cir. 2025). The plaintiff, Jennifer...more
As a result of President Trump’s recent social media posts regarding Harvard University’s tax-exempt status, some institutions of higher education (IHE) have expressed concerns over whether the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)...more
Judge Easterbrook of the Seventh Circuit, one of the most prominent jurists in the country, recently issued a resounding endorsement of universities’ right to determine their own academic affairs. His opinion will have its...more
Earlier this month, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals (which includes Georgia) affirmed the dismissal of Title IX and Section 1983 claims filed by volleyball players against the University of South Alabama and its...more
In this long-running suit against the University of Michigan by a male student accused of sexual assault in 2018, the Court awarded plaintiff $65,067.55 in attorney fees (out of $210,558.15 requested) and $3,982.37 in costs....more
An ATIXA Tip of the Week - Today, a federal district court in Kentucky issued a ruling in Tennessee vs. Cardona, one of the several lawsuits against the 2024 Title IX Regulations. This particular lawsuit was filed in the...more
Bricker Graydon’s Higher Education Team is pleased to announce a Winter 2024 series of Title IX trainings, all available virtually via webinar. All training events use discussions of hypothetical situations to encourage...more
Recently, the Connecticut Supreme Court analyzed the availability of absolute immunity for participants in quasi-judicial proceedings, specifically in relation to the dismissal of a complaint by a Yale University student...more
A headline-grabbing case regarding race in the college admissions process at an elite university, appealed all the way to the United States Supreme Court, is the type of nightmare scenario that might inspire an educational...more
This is an update to our prior information memo, which you can read here. On Sept 14, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Yeshiva University’s application for a stay pending appeal of the permanent injunction issued by a...more
Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 (Title IX) provides that “[n]o person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to...more
Earlier this summer, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts entered a decision vacating the provision in the new Title IX regulations that prohibited decision-makers from considering statements not subject...more
Professor’s Classroom Speech Deemed Protected - In a case involving questions regarding the application of Title IX to classroom instruction, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reasoned that a university’s gender-identity...more
In Harrisburg Area Community College v. Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, No. 654 C.D. 2019, (October 29, 2020), the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania recently examined the interaction between Pennsylvania’s Medical...more
Bricker & Eckler’s higher ed team is pleased to announce a full series of Title IX trainings for Summer and Fall 2020, all available via online webcast. All training events use discussions of hypothetical situations to...more
It may be common to see protest activity on your campus – but thankfully it is not common to see a massive jury award rendered against an educational institute due to that activity. An ongoing dispute at an Ohio college that...more
Bricker & Eckler’s higher ed team is pleased to announce a full series of Title IX trainings for Summer 2020, all available via online webcast. All training events use small-group discussion to encourage engagement with the...more
On December 12, 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that a sexual misconduct complainant’s fear of further contact with the respondent was not enough to support a claim against the university...more
On December 12, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued its decision in Kollaritsch v. Michigan State University Board of Trustees, holding that, in order to be liable for deliberate indifference under Title...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit determined that constitutional due process principles do not require public universities to permit respondents or their advisors to cross-examine complainants in Title IX...more
Bankruptcy Courts throughout the country are split on the socially charged issue of whether tuition payments made by parents for their adult children can be recovered by a bankruptcy trustee as “constructively fraudulent”...more