Category Archives: Title IX

Can a Parent File a Title IX Complaint on Behalf of a College Student?

November 23, 2022 | Felice Duffy | Title IX

Watching your child leave to go off to college evokes a variety of emotions in parents. We experience pride and excitement, but these positive emotions are often accompanied by a sense of loss and fear. We are losing contact and control over a life we carefully nurtured for years. We can no longer protect that …

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How to Know When You Have Suffered Unlawful Title IX Retaliation from Your School

November 16, 2022 | Felice Duffy | Title IX

Fear of retaliation is often the biggest reason students decide not to report Title IX violations on college campuses. If you have stepped forward and taken action to improve the environment at your school, you deserve to be congratulated, not punished. But we know that’s not usually how it works. A Title IX allegation makes …

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Winning the Battle but Losing the War: Student Wins on Contractual Grounds but Court Denies Title IX Claim

November 9, 2022 | Felice Duffy | Title IX, Title IX : News

A nursing student who was mistreated by her school won $1.7 million in damages in a lawsuit against the school. But this win feels like a loss in many ways for Title IX advocates. Not only did the court reject the student’s efforts to assert her Title IX rights, but they may also have established …

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How Do Title IX and Title VII Overlap?

October 31, 2022 | Felice Duffy | Title IX

Both Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 provide measures for protecting employees on campuses from discrimination and harassment on the basis of sex. Both are also federal laws. But with frequent changes in regulations and judicial rulings interpreting the statutes, it can be …

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What are the Consequences of Not Reporting Sexual Misconduct?

October 24, 2022 | Felice Duffy | Title IX, Title IX : Sexual Assault/Misconduct

Sexual misconduct can be hard to acknowledge and even hard for some people to recognize. Standards in society have shifted dramatically in recent decades, and conduct that was once considered merely in poor taste is now blatantly illegal. Other forms of sexual misconduct such as sexual assault used to be commonly ignored or downplayed on …

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