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Supreme Court Asked to Review Title IX ‘Circuit Split’

By Greta Anderson July 24, 2020 Former Michigan State University students have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review an appellate court’s December 2019 decision in their case against the university, in which a judge delivered a precedent-setting and unfavorable decision for victims of sexual misconduct. The petition to the Supreme Court, made by Emily Kollaritsch and other

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The ACLU’s ‘Death Star’ Client in Its Title IX Lawsuit

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/06/21/the_aclus_death_star_client_in_its_title_ix_lawsuit_143490.html The ACLU’s ‘Death Star’ Client in Its Title IX Lawsuit COMMENTARY By KC Johnson & Stuart Taylor Jr. June 21, 2020 The American Civil Liberties Union has been deservedly criticized for its May 14 lawsuit indirectly attacking the civil liberties of students accused of sexual assault, who have since 2011 been subjected to grotesquely unfair campus

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Myths and Hoaxes of Sexual Abuse Stoke ‘Politically Useful’ Fear

by Wendy McElroy [S]ince love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.”—Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, 1513 For those who want to control a population, fear is more useful than love and far easier to elicit. A culture conditioned to feel knee-jerk

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New Title IX Rules Strengthen Rights For Victims and Due Process For Accused

by Michelle Owens For nearly a decade, college administrators used the pseudo-legal authority they received from the Obama Administration to set up Wonderland-worthy courts where the Queen of Hearts’ motto, “sentence first – verdict afterwards,” was the law of the land. While many argued this was done to make it easier for victims to come

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Black Immigrant Chaplain Claims Christian College Used Bogus Title IX Investigation to Fire Him

HENRY KOKKELER – WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY • JULY 16, 2020 ‘From the outset … race was very much at issue’ A professor’s race heavily factored into his firing on the grounds of making racially and sexually insensitive comments, according to his attorney. Wheaton College, known informally as the Harvard of evangelical colleges, publicly announced the dismissal of

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Betsy DeVos Thanks Assistant Secretary Marcus for His Service Leading Civil Rights Office

July 9, 2020 WASHINGTON—U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos praised Assistant Secretary Kenneth L. Marcus for his strong leadership of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and for the remarkable results achieved after Marcus announced his upcoming departure from government service to return to the private sector. “I am so thankful for Ken’s strong leadership

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Ringing the Bell of Justice, 14 Attorneys General Remind Colleges of their Legal Duties Under Title IX

PRESS RELEASE Contact: Rebecca Stewart Telephone: 513-479-3335 Email: info@saveservices.org Ringing the Bell of Justice, 14 Attorneys General Remind Colleges of their Legal Duties Under Title IX WASHINGTON / July 20, 2020 – The Attorneys General from 14 states have released an Amicus Brief that summarizes the legal obligations of colleges and universities in responding to

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Blue State AGs Want To Limit College Students’ Due Process Rights. Red State AGs Are Fighting Back

July 18, 2020 by Ashe Schow A group of 18 Blue State attorneys general filed a lawsuit against U.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos earlier this month to try and block new regulations that would provide much needed due process to college students accused of sexual assault. The lawsuit is meant to delay the

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Why Are Some Members of Congress Opposing Due Process Protections for Black Male Students?

SAVE July 14, 2020 During the Senate HELP Committee’s 2015 hearing on campus sexual assault, Harvard Law Professor Janet Halley made the surprising observation that in her experience, “male students of color are accused and punished at ‘unreasonably high rates’ in campus sexual misconduct investigations.” (1) Two years later, journalist Emily Yoffe posed this question

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After Dems Exaggerate Impact, Panicked Kids Are Suing Over Betsy DeVos Title IX Changes

After Dems Exaggerate Impact, Panicked Kids Are Suing Over Betsy DeVos Title IX Changes Distorted partisan descriptions of the Department of Education changes could be doing real damage. ELIZABETH NOLAN BROWN | 7.10.2020 5:05 PM Seven students are joining a National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) lawsuit challenging new guidelines related to Title IX, the federal