This case challenges Harvard University’s decade-long failure to protect students from sexual harassment and career-ending retaliation by Professor John Comaroff, one of the most world’s most renowned and powerful scholars in the field of anthropology. The complaint alleges that Harvard hired Professor Comaroff despite warnings that he sexually harassed students at the University of Chicago,…
This was an appeal, heard by the full Seventh Circuit, concerning sexual violence on a university campus. While a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Isabelle Arana was sexually assaulted by a star member of the University’s football team. The University, through its own disciplinary investigation and hearing, determined Isabelle’s report was true and expelled…
Public Justice filed an amicus brief in support of the appellant in Grabowski v. Arizona Board of Regents, a Title IX case. In August 2017, Michael Grabowski enrolled at the University of Arizona as a freshman on academic and athletic scholarships. Almost as soon as he joined the University’s cross-country/track team, Michael’s teammates started harassing…
Public Justice filed an amicus brief in support of the appellee in Board of Trustees of the Nebraska State Colleges v. Doe, a Title IX sexual assault case. Chadron State College is part of the Nebraska State College System (NSCS). In 2016, Chadron student Jane Doe was twice raped by a classmate. After an…
This appeal arose out of a male student’s Title IX claim that the University of the Sciences had unfairly disciplined him for sexually assaulting classmates. John Doe claimed that the University’s investigatory procedures violated state law and that the University was motivated by anti-male bias. A district court granted the University’s motion to dismiss, but…
In this appeal, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, sitting en banc, held that a school may be liable under Title IX for causing a student to be sexually harassed in an off-campus location, including a student residence. The parties later settled the case. Mackenzie Brown, a student at the University of…
This is a civil rights lawsuit against North Penn School District, located in a Philadelphia suburb, for causing a female student, Jane Doe, to suffer repeated sexual assaults by a male classmate with a known history of sexual predation. The male classmate, MP, first began sexually abusing Jane at school when they were in sixth…
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 Estate of Karlie Hall, alleges that Millersville University violated Title…
This was an administrative complaint brought by a parent of Child Doe, a gender non-conforming student. Child Doe, an elementary school student in Crestwood School District, was subjected to unremedied harassment and discriminatory discipline on the basis of their gender identity and expression. Child Doe’s parent filed a complaint with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission.…