HHS Office for Civil Rights Director Melanie Fontes Rainer on Progress and News at OCR
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2022 DSIR Deeper Dive: OCR’s Right of Access Initiative
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Relaxed HIPAA Restrictions For Providers Using Telehealth
Webinar: Investigating and Resolving Sexual Assaults on Campus
Live hearings—the hallmark procedure and one of the most substantial changes under the 2020 Title IX regulations for higher education institutions—may be a thing of the past. This a possible result of the end of the...more
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has announced that it will immediately cease enforcement of the Title IX regulatory provision prohibiting decision-makers’ reliance on statements not subject to...more
In a publication posted last week, we told you about a recent decision from the United States District of Massachusetts, Victim Rights Law Center, et al. v. Cardona, and the potential impact this decision might have on your...more
Many in the Title IX field watched last week as two different federal courts denied challenges to the validity of the 2020 Title IX regulations under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). The regulations survived these...more
[Warning: This article does not reference viruses, vaccines, or mask-wearing.] The education world is in a state of flux, legally speaking. Any day now, the U.S. Supreme Court will further opine on the extent to which the...more
An Answer Is an Answer, Except When It’s Not On the evening of January 19, the last full day of Donald Trump’s term as president, the staffers and attorneys at the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) seemingly spent the night...more
Under the new Biden administration, the future feasibility of OCR’s all-or-nothing stance on cross-examination will be examined – if not by OCR itself, then likely by the federal courts. And it’s important for practitioners...more
Messeri v. University of Colorado at Boulder, No. 1:18-cv-02658-WJM-SKC In 2016, Jane Doe and Messeri met on the campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder where Messeri was enrolled. One night, while in Messeri’s room,...more
On September 22, 2017, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (the OCR) issued a new Dear Colleague Letter officially withdrawing the April 4, 2011 Dear Colleague Letter on Sexual Violence and the April 29,...more