Case Database
Created 03/26/2025
Last update 03/26/2025
What’s at stake: Protections for pregnant and postpartum students Summary: In 2024, the U.S. Department of Education published new Title IX regulations. The regulations cover a range of topics, including the rights of LGBTQ+ students, sexual harassment victims, and pregnant and postpartum students. Protections for...
Created 03/03/2025
Last update 04/07/2025
What’s at stake: Protections for pregnant and postpartum students Summary: In 2024, the U.S. Department of Education published new Title IX regulations. The regulations cover a range of topics, including the rights of LGBTQ+ students, sexual harassment victims, and pregnant and postpartum students. Protections for...
Created 02/05/2025
Last update 02/05/2025
What’s at stake: Protecting trans students from “forced outing” policies. Summary: In 2023, Temecula Valley Unified School District adopted a forced outing policy. The rule required schools to inform a student’s parents or guardians if they requested to use a name or pronoun, or access...
Created 12/09/2024
Last update 12/09/2024
What’s at stake: The amount of time a survivor has to file a lawsuit under Title IX. Summary: Just before she turned 21, E.R., a South Carolina resident, filed a lawsuit against her former school district, Beaufort County School District, for violating her Title IX...
Created 11/13/2024
Last update 11/14/2024
What’s at stake: The rights of transgender students in South Carolina to use restrooms consistent with their gender identity. Summary: In 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit confirmed that transgender students must be allowed to use restrooms consistent with their gender...
Created 10/01/2024
Last update 10/01/2024
What’s at stake: Whether Florida can ban transgender teachers from using pronouns and titles that best express who they are. Summary: Katie Wood is a 10th grade algebra teacher in a Florida public school. She is also a transgender woman. Her students have always addressed...
Created 09/12/2024
Last update 09/16/2024
What’s at stake: Whether a key federal employment law protects students workers from discrimination Summary: Meng Huang, a former PhD student at the Ohio State University, filed a lawsuit alleging a shocking pattern of abuse: Her advisor had sexually harassed her for years, starting the...
Created 09/12/2024
Last update 09/16/2024
What’s at stake: What protections federal and Michigan civil rights law provides student victims of racial harassment Summary: The Malick family lived in Sanilac County, Michigan, which is overwhelmingly white. Their daughter, “C.M.,” is Black. While a student at Croswell Lexington School District, C.M. was...
Created 07/09/2024
Last update 07/09/2024
The Students’ Civil Rights Project represents a Texas student who endured over a year of sex-based verbal abuse that drove her to the brink of suicide. The case seeks to make clear that schools cannot wait until harassment drives a student out of school before...
Created 05/14/2024
Last update 11/12/2024
Public Justice filed an amicus brief to defend a California law that gives thousands of sexual abuse survivors access to justice by lifting the harsh deadlines that used to bar their claims. Plaintiff Jane Doe was sexually abused by her school guidance counselor at Richmond...
Created 04/23/2024
Last update 03/18/2025
In this appeal, the Fourth Circuit held that a school’s Title IX obligation to investigate sexual harassment could be triggered by a report of “sexual grooming.” The case arises from sexual abuse at North Carolina State University. In 2016, the university’s senior associate athletic director...
Created 02/29/2024
Last update 12/09/2024
This appeal arose out of a male instructor’s Title IX lawsuit alleging that Schoharie Central School District, in New York, discriminated against him based on his sex when it disciplined him for allegedly touching a student’s breasts and buttocks. Keith Schiebel was an independent contractor...