With Phoenix Suns and Mercury owner Robert Sarver under fire following revelations of racist language as well as inappropriate, “sex-related” comments and “inequitable treatment of women,” 75 percent of sports fans believe that a code of conduct for owners should be adopted, just as there is one for NBA players. Should NBA owners be subject…
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Marquette University Law School’s National Sports Law Institute will host its 33rd annual Sports Law Fall Conference, which will focus on a wide range of topics connected to the 50th anniversary of Title IX, on Friday, Oct. 14, beginning at 9 a.m. at the Lubar Center in Eckstein Hall, 1215 W. Michigan St. The conference…
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Part of the University of Miami School of Law’s LL.M. in Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law, the class covers everything from the fine points of contract negotiations to the landmark Title IX law that opened doors for women and girls in athletics. By Robert C. Jones Jr. From the U.S. women soccer team’s decades-long fight…
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This week on the Dr. Phil Show, Olympic champion, women’s sports advocate, and lawyer Nancy Hogshead-Makar speaks on the importance of the female sports category. She explains “issues related to transgender eligibility in sport and urges sport to create new categories for transgender women AND men. “Sport achieves its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) goals…
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(Editor’s Note: The following is reprinted with permission of Lewis Brisbois) By Christina Stylianou “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.” Title IX, Education Amendments of…
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Earlier this month, the Missouri Attorney General’s Office, along with a coalition of twenty attorneys general led by Tennessee, obtained a preliminary injunction halting the Biden Administration’s guidance that would change Title VII and Title IX’s definition of “sex” to include “gender identity” relating to separation of bathrooms and sports in schools, and pronouns in…
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Grambling State University Head Volleyball Coach Chelsey Lucas was barely at work six months when the school fired her. Specifically, Lucas was hired by the school, which is designated as one of the country’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), in February after coaching stints at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and Alcorn…
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With the 50th anniversary of Title IX on June 23, 2022, the inaugural conference for the new Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS) is being held publicly with free admission at the Ahern Hotel in Las Vegas through June 28, 2022. ICONS is a fast-growing grassroots nonprofit of world-class athletes, parents, and a wide range of experts, doctors, lawyers, and…
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By Susan D. Friedfel, Monica H. Khetarpal, Carol R. Ashley and Laura A. Ahrens, of Jackson Lewis In conjunction with the 50th anniversary of Title IX, the U.S. Department of Education has released its proposed amendments to the regulations for Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 for public comment. According to Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Catherine E. Lhamon, “The proposed…
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FINA Member Federations voted Saturday in support of a new FINA policy on gender inclusion presented at the FINA Extraordinary General Congress 2022. The vote, which was 71.5 percent in favour of the new policy, took place after Congress heard speeches from representatives of a working group that was set up in November 2021. This…
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