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Rethinking Discipline within Title IX For many schools, student discipline, particularly in the Title IX context, is necessarily structured, formal and punitive. Investigations are governed by federal regulations, institutional policy and due ...

After President Donald Trump issued an executive order titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) changed its policies the next day about the inclusion of transgender athletes in ...

2024 was an exciting year for all things Title IX, and 2025 is already following suit. On January 9, 2025, the United States District Court of the Eastern District of Kentucky vacated the 2024 Title IX regulations nationwide. The court held that the ...

This article was originally published in the Pennsylvania Title IX Professional’s PaTIXPros June 2024 newsletter. To live hearing or not to live hearing? That is the question. Since August 2020, the Title IX regulations have mandated live ...

What do the new Title IX regulations and the new Taylor Swift album have in common? They both dropped on April 19, 2024, after many fortnights of anticipation. Since 2022, the Title IX world has been waiting for the Department of Education (ED) to ...

A good Title IX advisor can mean the difference between a party feeling informed and supported or confused and overwhelmed. Title IX coordinators and institutions should prioritize choosing, cultivating, and retaining advisors. Federal regulations ...

Katie Meyer, Stanford. Misrach Ewunetie, Princeton. These are two of the more well-known names of college students who committed suicide last year. Unfortunately, they were not alone—1,100 other college students also committed suicide in 2022, ...

The Washington Post recently reported that new proposed Title IX language referencing transgender students should be expected from the Department of Education (the Department) this month. The reported proposed regulations will include this ...

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals recently decided what constitutes actual notice of sexual harassment in Title IX cases. A school has actual knowledge, also referred to as actual notice, when a report is made to any school official, regardless of ...

Oprah Winfrey’s primetime television interview with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, revealed deep issues within the workings of a historic institution, one we only read about in books or watch on fictional shows ...

Less than 50 days into his presidency, President Biden signed an executive order on March 8, 2021, directing the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) to conduct a review of the controversial Title IX regulations (the Rules) that were spearheaded by ...

Despite 18 attorneys general, including Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, and Washington, DC, vigorously challenging the substance of the new Title IX Regulations (the Final Rule) and its August 14 effective date by filing a Motion for Preliminary ...

While many individuals and organizations have provided commentary and criticism over the revised Title IX regulations (the Rules) released in early May amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, 18 states’ attorneys general have collaborated to file suit ...

Who would have thought in the fall of 2019, when we were all waiting with bated breath for U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to issue the new Title IX regulations that the regulations would instead be issued in the spring during a pandemic? ...

Just a few short weeks ago, college students were in the midst of their spring semester, contemplating spring break, finals, graduation, and athletic conferences. At the same time, members of higher education institutions anticipated the release of ...

This week, the United States Department of Education (DOE) announced a new Title IX enforcement initiative led by the DOE’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to combat the rise of sexual harassment, sexual assault, sexual misconduct, and sexual ...

In November 2018, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) proposed new Title IX regulations concerning sexual harassment, including sexual assault, and received over 100,000 comments during the public comment period. As of today, the regulations have ...

Fall is here and in full swing! Many of us thought that as we sipped hot apple cider and watched the leaves on the trees change color, we would also be mulling over the new regulations issued by the U.S. Department of Education. Betsy DeVos’ ...

Cohen Seglias Summer Associate Alexandra M. Aversa also contributed to this article. On July 8, 2019, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed two campus safety initiatives into law to combat sexual violence and increase campus safety at Pennsylvania ...

This article originally appeared in The Legal Intelligencer on January 9, 2019. The Pennsylvania Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law (UTPCPL), 73 P.S. Section 201-1 et seq., and the Administrative Code of 1929, specifically 71 P.S. ...