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Hot Spots in Employment Law 2022
Overview - On July 11, 2025, the Seventh Circuit issued a ruling in Arana v. Board of Regents, reversing summary judgment for the defendant university. In its ruling in the case, which involved the readmission of a star...more
Jane Doe v. Riverside Sch. Dist., 2024 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 231380 (M.D. Pa., Dec. 23, 2024). After a classmate was convicted for sexual assault of a student outside of school, the student’s family alleged the School District...more
ATIXA created the One Policy, Two Procedures (1P2P) Model Policy and Procedures to innovate a more comprehensive approach for Title IX and civil rights compliance for schools and colleges. ATIXA regularly updates its models...more
The U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently published a Letter and Resolution Agreement vindicating a male student we represented in a complaint against Notre Dame. As set forth in the published...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 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
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
A federal judge in Kentucky on Thursday ruled the 2024 Title IX regulations were “arbitrary and capricious” and in violation of the Administrative Procedures Act (APA). Unlike other courts that had issued injunctions...more
In a lawsuit filed against Vanderbilt University by a male student who was disciplined for spreading rumors about alleged sexual misconduct by another male student, a federal district court allowed the plaintiff to pursue...more
On November 7, 2024, in a consolidated opinion addressing appeals in Joseph v. Board of Regents and Crowther v. Board of Regents, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that Title IX of the Education...more
Less than 24 hours before classroom bells were set to ring in schools across the southeastern United States, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order administratively blocking the implementation of the 2024 Title...more
“The rock and the hard place.” How often do employers find themselves here? If employers have LGBTQ employees in certain states, they are now bumping up against the “rock” of federal laws, like Title VII and Title IX, and the...more
Takeaway: The latest proposed amendments to the Title IX regulations would expand the scope of Title IX (by geography, time, and type of sex discrimination), create new obligations for higher education institutions, and...more
June 23, 2022, marked the 50-year anniversary of Title IX, as well as the release date of the U.S. Department of Education’s (USDOE) long-awaited proposed changes to the Title IX regulations for federally funded elementary...more
To assist collegiate sports administrators in assessing emerging Title IX issues, we are pleased to provide the Spring/Summer 2021 installment of the Title IX Alert. This issue discusses topics such as amended regulations,...more
Just a few days after President Biden's Secretary of Education appointee, Miguel Cardona, was sworn in earlier this month, the President called for a sweeping revision of the Title IX regulations that went into effect in...more
On September 25, 2020, the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) published a document entitled, “Effective Practices for Preventing Sexual Harassment.” ...more
Published reports indicate that President Trump’s proposed budget includes what is approximately a fifty percent reduction in the prior fiscal year’s funding for the United States Department of Education’s Office for Civil...more
When a student alleges discrimination within the school environment, the school district may be held liable if it was “deliberately indifferent” to the discrimination. Three recent cases involving allegations of sexual...more
On June 17, 2015, the New York State Legislature passed legislation governing how colleges and universities address sexual assault, dating violence, domestic violence and stalking. The governor is expected to sign it...more
This is part one of a four-part series discussing compliance with the “Dear Colleague" Letter on Sexual Violence issued by U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on April 4, 2011, as well as subsequently...more