Journal article
LIMITING GEBSER: INSTITUTIONAL LIABILITY FOR NON-HARASSMENT SEX DISCRIMINATION UNDER TITLE IX
Wake Forest Law Review, Vol.39, pp.311-1053
01 Jul 2004
Abstract
I. Introduction Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 1 usually evokes thoughts of either athletics equity or sexual harassment. For good reason: Athletics equity, for one, dominates the media coverage of Title IX. Whether in articles extolling the virtues of the law that paved the way for the creation of the Women's National Basketball Association 2 and the success of the United States women's soccer team in the 1999 World Cup 3 or press coverage of lawsuits that have garnered national attention for attempting to reign in the law to "save" men's collegiate wrestling programs, 4 Title IX is almost synonymous with sports. That much was evident when, in 2002, with great fanfare and immense media attention, President Bush appointed a fifteen member Secretary's Commission on Opportunity in Athletics to study Title IX, but limited the Commission's focus to athletics equity. 5 While athletics equity dominates the press, sexual harassment has recently consumed the Title IX legal arena. Except for a few procedural issues, 6 the Supreme Court has yet to hear a case addressing the substantive aspects of Title IX and athletics equity, forcing the lower courts to set the standards in this area. 7 On the other hand, the Supreme Court has decided three Title IX sexual harassment cases in the past decade, 8 and hundreds of Title IX sexual harassment cases are among the reported decisions of the lower courts. Cases involving teachers sexually harassing students have been the most common, but cases involving ...
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- Title
- LIMITING GEBSER: INSTITUTIONAL LIABILITY FOR NON-HARASSMENT SEX DISCRIMINATION UNDER TITLE IX
- Creators
- David S. Cohen
- Publication Details
- Wake Forest Law Review, Vol.39, pp.311-1053
- Publisher
- Wake Forest Law Review Association, Inc. Wake Forest Law Review
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Thomas R. Kline School of Law
- Identifiers
- 991020531870904721