With the August 1, 2024, effective date of the Department of Education’s April Title IX regulations (Final Rule) just weeks away, court action in pending lawsuits challenging the Final Rule across the country continues. The...more
7/22/2024
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Colleges ,
Department of Education ,
Discrimination ,
Educational Institutions ,
Final Rules ,
Gender Identity ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
SCOTUS ,
State and Local Government ,
Title IX ,
Universities
On July 2, Judge John Broomes of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas handed down yet another preliminary injunction blocking the Title IX regulations issued in April, following on the heels of similar orders...more
7/10/2024
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Appeals ,
Bostock v Clayton County Georgia ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Department of Education ,
Government Agencies ,
Loper Bright Enterprises v Raimondo ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
Regulatory Authority ,
SCOTUS ,
State and Local Government ,
Statutory Authority ,
Title IX
On June 13, a judge in the Western District of Louisiana issued a preliminary injunction enjoining the enforcement of the new Title IX regulations in full in the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana and Idaho. The...more
On July 15, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee entered a preliminary injunction barring the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Department of Education (ED) from enforcing...more
7/26/2022
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Department of Education ,
Discrimination ,
Employees ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Gender Identity ,
LGBTQ ,
Motion To Enjoin ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
Sexual Orientation ,
State and Local Government ,
Students ,
Title IX ,
Title VII
As part of the government’s broader efforts to combat foreign threats to U.S.-funded scientific research, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) have announced...more
On April 6, the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) sent a letter to stakeholders indicating how it intends to provide guidance on the implementation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title...more
On February 3, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) took steps in two separate cases to execute on expected changes in policy promised by the Biden Administration in the areas of affirmative action and Title IX. It...more
2/8/2021
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Affirmative Action ,
Biden Administration ,
Colleges ,
Department of Education ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Discrimination ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
Title IX ,
Universities ,
Yale
On June 4, two separate lawsuits were filed by states against the Department of Education (the Department) alleging that the Department violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) in promulgating the final rules...more
On May 5, the Department of Education released its long-awaited final regulations under Title IX of the Higher Education Act. At more than 2,000 pages, the final regulations attempt to address the more than 120,000 comments...more
It has been well over a year since the Department of Education issued its proposed regulations under Title IX of the Higher Education Act for notice and comment and we are quickly coming up on the first anniversary of the...more
1/29/2020
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Best Practices ,
Colleges ,
Department of Education ,
Educational Institutions ,
Final Rules ,
Higher Education Act ,
Investigations ,
OCR ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Standard of Proof ,
Title IX ,
Universities