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 they take steps to stop it. For over a year,…
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 High School in West Contra Costa Unified School District in…
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 received a report that an athletic trainer and administrator, Robert…
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 who provided educational instruction at the School District. After a…
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 year at a high school in the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School…
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 Adrianna Wadsworth. At the time, Adrianna was a vulnerable teenager…
In 2021, Lee Williamson and Aletta Williamson enrolled J.W., their Black and biracial toddler, in Heritage Preschools—an overwhelmingly white, private Christian preschool system in Alabama. For his first two years, J.W. had a positive experience at Heritage and rarely got into trouble. But things quickly changed when the school advanced J.W., who was by then…
“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 harassment and protect John’s education, the principal threatened to call…
Megan Roe and Jane Doe are 11- and 15-year-old girls who want to try out for their schools’ girls’ volleyball, soccer, and cross-country teams. But a new Arizona law would prevent them from doing so because they are transgender. They challenged the law in court, and Public Justice joined an amicus brief in support of…