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 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 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 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...
Created 02/22/2024
Last update 03/14/2024
In this Title IX sexual harassment case, Public Justice successfully opposed a cert petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the matter. During middle school in Texas, “Jane Roe” started dating a classmate, “John Doe,” who physically and emotionally abused her. During their freshman...
Created 02/22/2024
Last update 03/14/2024
Public Justice filed an amicus brief in this First Circuit appeal in support of the Plaintiff, Adrianna Wadsworth, who was sexually harassed as a high school student by her principal. Beginning in 2016, Medomak Valley High School principal Andrew Cavanaugh groomed and sexually harassed student...
Created 12/15/2023
Last update 03/14/2024
“John Doe,” an asylum-seeker attending elementary school within the School District of Philadelphia, was harassed by classmates based on his perceived sexual orientation and national origin. His mother, Leslie Hernández, encouraged John to ask his principal for help. Rather than provide support to stop the...
Created 11/13/2023
Last update 03/14/2024
California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta filed this case to challenge a new policy that Chino Valley Unified School District adopted in July 2023. The policy requires schools to “out” transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming students to their parents, even when those students reasonably fear their...
Created 09/26/2023
Last update 04/17/2025
What’s at stake: Michigan students’ right to learn free from harassment Summary: Jane Doe attended Alpena Public Schools in Michigan. In fourth grade, a classmate sexually harassed her repeatedly. Her school did not stop the harassment. Jane sued her school in state court under Michigan’s...