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If you haven’t read the recent press releases from the Department of Education reflecting their summer enforcement focus around Title IX, below we’ll dive into what happened this month. Penn’s agreement with the Office for...more
In early July, the University of Pennsylvania said it had reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Education, resolving a federal investigation into Title IX violations based on transgender athlete participation in...more
The Supreme Court will soon decide whether states can ban transgender high school and college athletes from participating on female sports teams at their schools. After initially declining to review this issue in 2023 and...more
Many K-12 and institutes of higher education are concerned about the potential threat to their federal funding given recent changes to the way the government is interpreting existing federal law to achieve certain policy...more
In Tennessee v. Cardona, 2025 WL 63795, a Kentucky federal judge issued an opinion vacating the new Title IX regulations. In April of 2024, new Title IX regulations expanded the concept of discrimination “on the basis of...more
On Feb. 5, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.” The Executive Order states that “[i]n recent years, many educational institutions and athletic associations have allowed men to...more
The U.S. Department of Education (Department) recently issued a “Dear Colleague Letter” stating that the Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) will enforce the 2020 Title IX Regulations governing K-12 schools’ and...more
In the two weeks since President Trump took office, he has issued numerous orders, many of which affect educational institutions. The following summarizes the most recent executive orders and directives affecting our...more
Orders that it is the policy of the United States to oppose male competitive participation in women’s sports more broadly, as a matter of safety, fairness, dignity, and truth. Administration will take all appropriate action...more
Within the last month, three developments have rocked the Title IX world: the Eastern District of Kentucky’s decision in State of Tennessee v. Cardona, President Trump’s Executive Order restricting the federal definition of...more
On January 31, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) confirmed that, effective immediately and applicable to all open Title IX investigations, it will enforce the first Trump administration’s 2020 Title IX regulations (the...more
On January 31, 2025, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a “Dear Colleague Letter” (DCL) announcing that it would enforce Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 under the provisions...more
On January 20, 2025, one of President Trump’s first actions as the president of the United States was signing an Executive Order proclaiming that the U.S. government only recognizes two sexes: male and female. The order goes...more
On January 9, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky vacated the Biden administration’s 2024 Title IX regulations. The vacatur applies nationwide, meaning the 2020 Title IX final rule and Title IX...more
On January 9, 2025, the Biden administration’s Title IX Final Rule was struck down by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, which declared the regulations unconstitutional for all schools nationwide....more
On January 9, a federal judge in the Eastern District of Kentucky entered an order vacating the 2024 Title IX regulations (the Final Rule). The case is Tennessee, et al. v. Cardona (Civil Action No. 2: 24-072)....more
On April 19, 2024, the Department of Education released its final Title IX regulations regarding sexual discrimination in federally-funded education (the “2024 Title IX Rules”)....more
A recent federal court ruling that struck down expanded Title IX protections has implications that could extend well beyond educational institutions. By rejecting the Biden administration’s Title IX rules that expanded sex...more
On Jan. 9, 2025, the Eastern District of Kentucky held in State of Tennessee, et al. v. Miguel Cardona, et al. that the U.S. Department of Education’s 2024 Final Rule implementing Title IX is “unlawful.” This court decision...more
On January 9, 2025, a federal court in Kentucky vacated the 2024 Title IX regulations that had been adopted by the U.S. Department of Education and which have been in effect since August 1, 2024. (Tennessee v. Cardona (E.D....more
Title IX, enacted as part of the Education Amendments of 1972, is a federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. Its primary...more
On Thursday, January 9, 2025, Judge John C. Reeves of the Eastern District of Kentucky issued an opinion and order vacating the Final Rule that implemented the 2024 Title IX Regulations. The decision by Judge Reeves has the...more
On January 9, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky (“Court”) vacated the 2024 Title IX Final Rule (“Final Rule”) nationwide in State of Tennessee v. Cardona. The U.S. Department of Education...more
On January 9, 2025, a federal trial court in State of Tennessee, et al. v. Cardona vacated the Biden Administration’s overhaul of Title IX regulations. Although provisions of the Rule had already been temporarily blocked in...more
In its decision vacating the United States Department of Education’s 2024 Title IX Regulations on January 9, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky found that the Department of Education exceeded...more