title IX – Sports Law Expert

Federal Court Orders Concordia University Irvine to Preserve Women’s Teams While Female Athletes’ Title IX Sex Discrimination Class Action Proceeds

October 28, 2025

United States District Court Judge Fred W. Slaughter issued a 29-page Order granting Plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction on Friday barring Concordia University Irvine (“CUI”) from “eliminating its women’s swimming & diving team, its women’s tennis team, and all other women’s varsity teams at CUI for the 2025-26 academic year, and for the duration of…
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Corporate Partnership in Collegiate Athletics – Players Health Insurance and Teamworks

September 18, 2025

Players Health, a leading provider of athlete safety and insurance solutions, announced yesterday a first-of-its-kind insurance partnership with Teamworks, “the Operating System for Sports™ powering 99% of D1 athletic departments and more than 6,500 elite sports teams globally.” This partnership integrates Players Health’s insurance quote generation capabilities into Teamworks’ General Manager (GM) contracting workflow, enabling…
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In New York State, Alleged Sexual Harassment by Coach Reviewed Under Title IX and DASA

September 8, 2025

(Editor’s Note: From the pages of Sports Litigation Alert.) By Ellen J. Staurowsky, Ed.D., Senior Writer and Professor, Sports Media, Ithaca College, staurows@ithaca.edu On May 8, 2025, administrators with the Minisink Valley Central School District (NY) announced that the head coach of the girls’ softball team had been relieved of his duties pending an investigation…
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U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Transgender Women Athlete Cases

July 9, 2025

(Editor’s Note: This is a short article from Title IX Alert’s Editor in Chief Ellen Staurowksy. It appeared in the summer Alert, a free subscription publication produced by Hackney Publications.) By Ellen J. Staurowsky, Ed.D., Senior Writer and Professor, Sports Media, Ithaca College, staurows@ithaca.edu On July 3, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider…
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California AG Files Pre-Enforcement Lawsuit Amid U.S. DOJ Demands that California Schools Violate State Law and U.S. Constitution

June 11, 2025

(What follows is a press release from California’a AG’s office.) California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a pre-enforcement lawsuit Monday against the U.S. Department of Justice (U.S. DOJ) in anticipation of imminent legal retaliation against California’s school systems. Last week, U.S. DOJ issued a letter requesting certification from California school districts that they will not…
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Akerman Sports Lawyer LaKeisha Marsh Elected to Board of Directors of the NACUA

May 26, 2025

LaKeisha C. Marsh, chair of Akerman’s Government Strategies Practice Group and Higher Education and Collegiate Athletics Practice, has been elected to serve on the National Association of College and University Attorneys’ (NACUA) board of directors for a three-year term beginning June 2025. NACUA is a leading membership association in the field of higher education law,…
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Attorney William Bock Visits with the Sports Law Expert Podcast in Exclusive Interview

May 15, 2025

Sports lawyer William “Bill” Bock III, a partner at Kroger, Gardis & Regas, LLP, recently joined Sports Litigation Alert Editor Holt Hackney as a guest on the Sports Law Expert Podcast. The segment, which was made available today, can be heard here – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-visit-with-sports-lawyer-william-bock-of/id1740807429?i=1000704345799. “Bill is an icon in the sports industry, known for his…
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Jackson Lewis: Institutions’ Title IX Compliance Under the Microscope: DOJ, ED Form Special Investigations Team to Enforce Gender Ideology EOs

April 22, 2025

By Susan D. Friedfel, Monica H. Khetarpal, Carol R. Ashley & Danielle Bland Takeaway The DOJ and ED are allocating resources to increase enforcement of Title IX concerning participation of transgender athletes, the use of intimate spaces, and “gender ideology” generally. Institutions should carefully review their policies and practices now that the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of…
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Professor: ‘Trans Athletes Causing Life-Altering Injuries’

April 17, 2025

John F. Banzhaf III, B.S.E.E., J.D., Sc.D., Professor of Public Interest Law Emeritus at George Washington University, remains as committed as ever to his position on the transgender athlete issue. His latest post (reprinted below) from this morning illustrates that: “Britain’s Supreme Court has just ruled that the legal definition of a woman is someone born biologically…
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Sports Lawyer Appointed Title IX Coordinator for Southwestern University

April 11, 2025

Loren Galloway Bowans has joined Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas as its new Title IX Coordinator. Bowans was previously at the University of Texas at Austin, where she was a member of the University Risk and Compliance Services team and manager of UT’s Clery Act compliance program. She also worked closely with UT Austin’s Title…
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