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Biden OCR Acting Head Appointee Has Dubious Record

Biden OCR Acting Head Appointee Has Dubious Record by James Baresel February 1, 2021 For over fifteen years Columbia University law professor Suzanne Goldberg has intermittently hovered around the fringes of major news stories. In 2003 she nearly achieved 15 minutes of fame as co-council in the Lawrence v. Texas case that saw the Supreme […]

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Investigations Start By Believing Trauma Informed Victim-Centered Investigations

PR: New Resource for Defense Attorneys: Mounting an Effective Defense in Proceedings Tainted by ‘Victim-Centered’ Philosophy

PRESS RELEASE Contact: Rebecca Stewart Telephone: 513-479-3335 Email: info@saveservices.org New Resource for Defense Attorneys: Mounting an Effective Defense in Proceedings Tainted by ‘Victim-Centered’ Philosophy WASHINGTON / February 3, 2021 – A new report released today addresses the growing influence of guilt-presuming “victim-centered” concepts in criminal proceedings. Titled, “Defending Against ‘Victim-Centered’ Proceedings: Guide for Criminal Defense […]

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The Biden Plan For Title IX Must Protect Due Process

By: MICHAEL POLIAKOFF | January 25, 2021 The 18th-century British jurist William Blackstone pronounced, “It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.” There are few principles of law we hold more sacred than “innocent until proven guilty.” For most of the last decade, however, this doctrine has had negligible impact […]

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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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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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Domestic Violence Sexual Assault Start By Believing Trauma Informed Victim-Centered Investigations

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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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 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 […]