High Court Considers Title IX's Reach

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For more than 30 years, the law known as Title IX has protected young women from discrimination in athletic programs at schools receiving federal funds.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court debated whether the law also protects a man -- in this case, the coach of a girls' high school basketball team -- who says he was punished for complaining about unequal treatment for his team.

Justices seemed divided over whether third-party retaliation is within the scope of Title IX, or whether the threat of withdrawing federal funds from school districts is a strong enough weapon to discourage the punishment of whistleblowers like Roderick Jackson of Birmingham, Ala., whose case the Court considered.

Jackson was relieved of coaching duties, but not his tenured position as a teacher, in May 2001 after he complained to supervisors about Ensley High School's inadequate facilities for female athletes. He sued, but the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in 2002 that Title IX does not provide a cause of action to redress retaliation.
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1. Let's just repeal Title IX

so girls can go back to playing team sports in their gymsuits, while the boys' team gets new uniforms. That's what it was like before Title IX.

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2. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1033664