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Campus Civil Rights Department of Education Due Process Law & Justice Legal Office for Civil Rights Title IX

Keep Cross-Examination Out of College Sexual-Assault Cases

By Suzanne B. Goldberg JANUARY 10, 2019 Requiring cross-examination in campus sexual-misconduct proceedings is among the key features of the Department of Education’s proposed Title IX reforms currently open for public comment. The department, relying on an oft-cited 1904 legal treatise, calls cross-examination “the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth.” Although […]

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Law & Justice Legal Sexual Harassment

Confusing “Workplace Harassment” Bill is Back

by Hans Bader, January 18, 2021 “Old bills never die, they just wait for votes,” notes the East Bay Times. A bad bill can die in one legislative session, only to come back with a vengeance in the next session, and get passed due to more intense lobbying, or the death or retirement of opposing lawmakers. That may happen this […]

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Title IX

Will Biden’s Education Secretary Avoid Ideological Battles?

Will Biden’s Education Secretary Avoid Ideological Battles? By James Baresel No sooner had United States Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos issued new Title IX regulations for the handling of sexual assault and harassment allegations by colleges and universities this past May than Joe Biden pledged a reversal of policy—claiming that restoring the presumption of innocence and mandating […]

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Biden faces Title IX battle complicated by politics and his own history

A Long and Complicated Road Ahead Improving how colleges respond to sexual assault on campus is one of President Biden’s top priorities. But it’s likely to be an uphill battle By Greta Anderson, January 22, 2021 Joe Biden entered the White House this week with high and wide-ranging expectations from higher education leaders, advocates for […]

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One-Third of Wrongful Convictions Involve Police Manipulation of Evidence

One-Third of Wrongful Convictions Involve Police Manipulation of Evidence. With ‘Victim-Centered’ Investigations, It May Get Worse. Center for Prosecutor Integrity January 21, 2021 The National Registry of Exonerations has catalogued every exoneration in the United States since 1989. Recently the NRE published a report on the long-standing problem of police misconduct. Titled, “Government Misconduct and […]

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Title IX Title IX Equity Project

PR: New ED Directive Says Universities Must End Sex-Discriminatory Scholarships and Programs

PRESS RELEASE Contact: Rebecca Stewart Telephone: 513-479-3335 Email: info@saveservices.org New ED Directive Says Universities Must End Sex-Discriminatory Scholarships and Programs WASHINGTON / January 18, 2021 – The U.S. Department of Education (ED) has just released a new guidance that clarifies the Title IX ban on school scholarships and programs that discriminate on the basis of […]

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Department of Education Department of Justice Discrimination Law & Justice Legal Office for Civil Rights Title IX

Department of Education says schools can’t use ‘national statistics’ to justify women-only scholarships, programs

GREG PIPER – ASSOCIATE EDITOR, THE COLLEGE FIX JANUARY 14, 2021 Don’t give ‘special status’ to outside groups with sex restrictions, either Largely thanks to the efforts of University of Michigan-Flint economist Mark Perry, schools across the country are facing scrutiny from the Department for Education for offering programs and scholarships that exclude males from eligibility. His […]

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Trauma Informed Wrongful Convictions

Trauma-Informed: A Cancer on Our Nation’s Legal System

SAVE January 14, 2021 In recent years, a trendy new investigative approach has been pushed both on college campuses and in the criminal justice system. Called “Trauma-informed,” it claims that sexual assault and domestic violence victims are so traumatized by the experience that they are unable to provide a coherent account of the assault. Which […]

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Campus Department of Education Sexual Assault Title IX

Title IX Has Turned Universities Into Really Terrible Sex Police

By Teresa R. Manning JANUARY 11, 2021 Title IX feminists seek to abuse the federal access law to institute policies that favor women — including inverting the presumption of innocence. A Biden administration spells more controversy about Title IX, the federal equal access law that bans sex discrimination in schools receiving federal funds, but now used to […]

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Investigations Law & Justice Sexual Assault Trauma Informed

The Metastasizing Cancer of Trauma-Informed Justice

Sunday 10 January 2021 by Wendy McElroy “Trauma-informed Justice” has percolated in academia and activism for decades. It is now knocking on the door of local police departments to demand changes that could upend the basics of how people relate to law enforcement. The approach converts the police into social workers or therapists and erases […]