Gender & Sexual Violence Archives

March 24, 2022 Anti-Bullying, Gender & Sexual Violence, Students' Civil Rights Project Cases / Briefs

Shelby v. Huntsville City Board of Education

This federal civil rights case involves the tragic death of Nigel Shelby, a Black, openly gay freshman at Alabama’s Huntsville High School who died by suicide at age 15 after experiencing unchecked LGBTQ+ harassment and race discrimination at school. Nigel never felt safe at Huntsville…

February 25, 2022 Gender & Sexual Violence, Students' Civil Rights Project Cases / Briefs

Hall v. Millersville University

Public Justice and the Women’s Law Project, joined by 29 other organizations, filed an amici brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in support of the plaintiffs in this Title IX dating violence case. The lawsuit, filed by representatives of the…

July 19, 2021 Gender & Sexual Violence, Students' Civil Rights Project Cases / Briefs

The Women’s Student Union v. U.S. Department of Education

This is a lawsuit brought under the Administrative Procedure Act to challenge key provisions of the Title IX regulations promulgated in 2020 by the U.S. Department of Education under the leadership of former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. The regulations limit the rights of students…

April 24, 2019 Anti-Bullying, Civil Rights & Liberties, Gender & Sexual Violence Cases / Briefs

Doe v. Gwinnett County School District

This was a civil rights suit on behalf of Jane Doe, a biracial female who, at age 16, was forced to engage in a sexual act at school by a high school male student. When Jane Doe reported the incident to school officials, they did…

August 2, 2018 Anti-Bullying, Gender & Sexual Violence Cases / Briefs

Snyder-Hill, et al. v. The Ohio State University and Moxley v. The Ohio State University

Public Justice and its co-counsel represent 127 survivors of sexual abuse by Ohio State University doctor Richard Strauss. They are among the potentially thousands of male students, workers, and visitors sexually abused by Dr. Strauss while he was employed by Ohio State. The lawsuit alleges…

June 14, 2018 Gender & Sexual Violence Cases / Briefs

Hewlett v. Utah State University

This is a civil rights and negligence case on behalf of Victoria Hewlett, a former Utah State University (USU) student who, at age 19, was raped and beaten at a fraternity party by a USU student with a known history of sexual violence and harassment….

June 13, 2018 Anti-Bullying, Gender & Sexual Violence Cases / Briefs

Larios v. Chadron State College

This was a civil rights case against a state college that failed to respond appropriately to reports of student-on-student dating violence and, as a result, the victim died. Fatima Larios, a promising student-athlete on the softball team at Chadron State College in Nebraska was found…

June 13, 2018 Gender & Sexual Violence Cases / Briefs

Weckhorst v. Kansas State University

Public Justice joined an amici brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in support of the plaintiffs in a Title IX suit against a university for acting with deliberate indifference to student-on-student sexual violence that occurred at fraternities. The university lost…

June 13, 2018 Gender & Sexual Violence Cases / Briefs

Doe v. Fairfax County School Board

This is a Title IX lawsuit against the tenth largest school division in the country—Virginia’s Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)—for violating the rights of a student survivor of sexual assault. Jane Doe, an FCPS student,) was sexually assaulted at age 16 by an older classmate…

June 13, 2018 Anti-Bullying, Gender & Sexual Violence Cases / Briefs

Doe v. Washington Public Schools

This is a civil rights case brought by an Oklahoma middle school student subjected to three sexual assaults by his male peers in an 18-month period, almost daily verbal harassment and bullying, and threats of physical harm and death in Washington Public Schools that went…

Practice Area: Gender & Sexual Violence