News & Analysis as of

Students First Amendment Title IX

Marshall Dennehey

Legal Update for Special Education Law – Updates from the U.S. Department of Education

Marshall Dennehey on

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

Littler

What Should Educational Institutions Do Next for Title IX Now That Biden’s Final Rule Was Blocked by a Federal Judge?

Littler on

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

Troutman Pepper Locke

What Do We Do Now? District Court Invalidates 2024 Title IX Regulations

Troutman Pepper Locke on

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

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Ohio Senate Bill 206 Seeks to Expand School Discipline for Conduct on Social Media

Ohio Senate Bill 206, (SB 206) introduced in 2024, calls for students who post threatening content on social media to be punished with expulsion from school for up to 180 days. The bill defines the proposed prohibited conduct...more

Fisher Phillips

Federal Court Blocks Sweeping Title IX Rule for Schools Nationwide: How Your School Can Approach the Changes

Fisher Phillips on

A federal court just blocked the sweeping Title IX rule finalized by the Biden administration last year – effectively wiping the entire rule off the books for all schools nationwide. Prior to Thursday’s ruling, schools across...more

Shipman & Goodwin LLP

2024 Title IX Regulations Are Likely Vacated

Shipman & Goodwin LLP on

Last year was a turbulent one for Title IX, and although we are just a few days into 2025, this turbulence has persisted into the new year. Yesterday, January 9, 2025, a federal district court in Kentucky issued a ruling that...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

Additional Title IX Regulation Injunctions Just Before the Implementation Deadline

Bricker Graydon LLP on

In the days just before the August 1, 2024 implementation deadline, a flurry of judicial activity changed the landscape of new Title IX regulation implementation yet again. ...more

Roetzel & Andress

Federal Judge Temporarily Prevents New Title IX Regulations From Taking Effect in Ohio

Roetzel & Andress on

On June 17, 2024, a United States District Court judge in Kentucky issued a preliminary injunction preventing the 2024 Title IX regulations from going into effect in several states, including Ohio. The 2024 regulations are...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

The Academic Advisor- Education Law Insights, Issue 2, February 2023

Win in Court doesn’t Assure More Pennsylvania School Funding - “Pennsylvania is the latest state where the public school funding system was found to be unconstitutional, but the experience in other states suggests there’s...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

Federal Circuit Court Addresses Student Athlete Misconduct Issues (Part 1)

Bricker Graydon LLP on

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has published a significant ruling addressing college student athletes’ First Amendment, procedural due process, and Title IX rights. The case, Radwan v. Manuel,...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

The Academic Advisor - Education Law Insights, Issue 2, 2022

Welcome to our second edition of The Academic Advisor - our e-newsletter focused on education law insights. We hope you enjoyed our first issue and found it helpful. Our aim is to support the work that you do by bringing...more

Fisher Phillips

Disciplining Faculty in a Public Higher Education Setting: Growing Number of Jurisdictions Recognize “Academic Exception”

Fisher Phillips on

Can a public university discipline a professor for refusing to address a student by the student’s preferred pronoun? If so, can the professor defend his conduct by alleging his religious beliefs prohibit him from recognizing...more

Franczek P.C.

Supreme Court (Finally) Will Address School Discipline for Off-Campus, Online Student Speech

Franczek P.C. on

In 2017, a high school cheerleader learned she had not made the varsity team and turned to Snapchat. She posted a picture of herself and a friend, middle fingers up, with the text “f— school f— softball f— cheer f—...more

TNG Consulting

Can an Online Threat Trigger the Need for An Emergency Removal Under Title IX?

TNG Consulting on

It’s unlikely that online threats could be immediate threats to physical health or safety, unless the threatening individual is in close physical proximity to those being threatened, or the threat is pretty detailed and...more

Saul Ewing LLP

Education Department Issues Final Rule Focusing on Free Speech on Campus and Equal Treatment of Faith-Based Institutions

Saul Ewing LLP on

On September 9, 2020, after receiving more than 17,000 public comments to its notice of proposed rulemaking (the “NPRM”), the United States Department of Education (the “Department”) published the Religious Liberty and Free...more

Franczek P.C.

Do Virtual Sticks and Stones Also Break Bones? Addressing Cyberbullying Under Title IX

Franczek P.C. on

Cyberbullying is nothing new. A majority of teens have experienced the phenomenon and college campuses certainly are not immune. Just because something is common does not make it simple to deal with, however. And this is...more

Franczek P.C.

Proposed Regulations Would Ease Access to Public Funds for Faith-Based Colleges

Franczek P.C. on

The White House recently announced two initiatives aimed at addressing perceived discrimination in education against students and institutions based on religion. We address the first of those initiatives, relating to prayer...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Tenth Circuit Leaves Unresolved When Off-Campus Social Media Posts Can Subject Students to Discipline

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on

Seyfarth Synopsis: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit’s recent opinion in Yeasin v. Durham, No. 16-3367, 2018 WL 300553 (10th Cir. Jan. 5, 2018), addresses the “tension between some students’ free-speech rights...more

Dickinson Wright

Education Newsletter Volume 1, Number 1: Arizona Senator Introduces Bill to Expand the Rights of Student Speech

Dickinson Wright on

This session, Arizona Senate Majority Leader Kimberly Yee (R-Phoenix) introduced Senate Bill 1384 to expand the rights of student journalists. If passed would grant both high school and college level student journalists the...more

19 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide