The Department of Justice alleges that the South Bend Police Department is violating the Civil Rights Act due to disparate acceptance rates for female and black applicants.
But her national origin discrimination claim (apart from the sex discrimination component) is rejected, as is her defamation claim.
The court concludes states are likely to succeed in their procedural challenges to the Education Department's decision to extend Bostock to Title IX.
"'An ideological preference for characterizing sex as a social construct, a stereotype, and a myth,' she asserts, denies the science of sex differences as well as common sense."
and so can the professor's Title VII and Title IX discrimination claims against the university.
Federal courts continue to be split on this question.
The court had earlier issued a temporary restraining order against the law, to maintain the status quo; but now that it has gotten more full briefing, it declined to block the law (but also declined to dismiss the challenge to the law).
Do the principles of Title IX in sports apply elsewhere?
It prohibits discrimination and mandates segregation.
"The state is permitted to legislate sports rules on this basis because sex, and the physical characteristics that flow from it, are substantially related to athletic performance and fairness in sports."
The Appeals Panel Rejects a Trangender Student's Bid to Use Bathroom Corresponding to the Student's Gender Identity Instead of Biological Sex.
The deal includes several amendments to the original draft legislation that are unlikely to have much substantive effect.
Tampa top prosecutor Andrew Warren pledged to not prosecute women seeking abortions and those pursuing gender-affirming health care.
The vague wording of the bill has led to a culture war fight about what the text means, and that’s never good for the First Amendment.
It’s about a lot more than transgender girls’ participation in sports under Title IX, but expect that controversy to dominate the discussion.
The state law banning sex discrimination in public accommodations has no specific exemption for such spaces, and the Connecticut Supreme Court declines to read one into the law.
“Particularly given the ultimate findings of Roe’s numerous fabrications, Mr. Zeck’s statement plausibly supports an inference that the Regents prejudged Roe’s allegations (and Doe’s defenses thereto) during its investigation on the basis of their respective genders.”
A better way to end sex discrimination would be to simply abolish it for everyone.
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Culture war bills signed into law in Arkansas, West Virginia, and Tennessee run afoul of Constitution, federal law.
Three justices - including conservavtive Brett Kavanaugh - strongly suggested they believe male-only draft registration is unconstitutional.
The Connecticut Supreme Court will be hearing a case on this next week.
[UPDATE: This might make American Bar Association CLE programs, for which the ABA requires such quotas, ineligible for Florida CLE credit.]
Drawn from William Eskridge and Christopher Riano's comprehensive new book on the subject.
The president has ordered the Education Department to consider rescinding reforms aimed at protecting the due process rights of accused students.
A Ninth Circuit decision that may be of particular interest to academics.
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"[P]laintiff has ... made a sufficient showing that defendant has threatened his academic future in violation of his rights to equal treatment regardless of his sex ...."
The opinion, which suggests a strong concern about due process, will nevertheless be cited as evidence of the SCOTUS nominee's "uniformly conservative" record.
The passing of a feminist heroine, and a giant of American jurisprudence.
