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As the start of school quickly approaches for Georgia private K-12 schools, there’s a little more planning to do this year: getting up to speed on the state’s new gender identification requirements for interscholastic...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
On Monday, May 19, 2025, Department of Justice (“DOJ”) Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a memorandum establishing the “Civil Rights Fraud Initiative” (the “Memorandum”), in the latest signal that DOJ intends to...more
Like many firms with a leadership think tank, our consultants collaborate to inform how we advise our clients and ATIXA’s members. Recently, we discussed the Trump Administration’s Executive Order (EO) that limits its...more
Last month, the Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Education (ED) announced the creation of a joint Special Investigations Team (SIT) to streamline Title IX investigations....more
The federal government just took a dramatic step to reshape Title IX enforcement – one that should prompt immediate action from all colleges and universities. On April 4, the U.S. Department of Education and Department of...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
On February 24, 2025, Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed the State Department to deny visas to transgender athletes if their sex marker does not align with their sex assigned at birth. His directive, 25 STATE 15576,...more
On February 6, 2025 in an updated participation policy, the NCAA barred transgender athletes from competing in women’s college sports. In a statement, the NCAA said that “effective immediately, only athletes assigned female...more
President Donald Trump last week took a major step to deliver on one of his top campaign promises: banning transgender athletes from participating in girls' or women’s sports. His executive order and the reaction to it have...more
On Feb. 5, National Girls & Women in Sports Day, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” declaring “it is the policy of the United States to oppose male competitive...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
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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
This is the third in our 2025 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. We will be posting further installments in the series throughout the next several...more
In a recent and far-reaching decision, a federal court struck down the Biden administration’s 2024 final rule, which sought to implement significant changes to Title IX’s regulations (the 2024 Final Rule). ...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 (“Final Rule”) implementing Title IX is “unlawful.” This...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 November 27, 2024, Ohio Governor DeWine signed Senate Bill 104 (“S.B. 104”), which will take effect on February 25, 2025. This bill touches every corner of campus – from academic buildings to residence halls, from...more
On January 9, 2025, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky (the “Court”) issued a decision and order in Tennessee v. Cardona (the “January 9 Order”). Plaintiffs had sued the Department of...more
Ohio Governor DeWine just signed into effect a law that will soon ban students from using school restrooms and other facilities that don’t align with their sex assigned at birth – and your school will need to take steps to...more
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On July 22, 2024, Solicitor General of the United States Elizabeth B. Prelogar submitted applications to the Supreme Court of the United States for a partial stay of two preliminary injunctions issued, respectively, by the...more