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Title IX

Federal Judge Concludes UConn Sexual Assault Hearing Likely Violated Due Process

https://reason.com/2020/01/25/federal-judge-concludes-uconn-sexual-assault-hearing-likely-violated-due-process/ DUE PROCESS Federal Judge Concludes UConn Sexual Assault Hearing Likely Violated Due Process, orders university to temporarily reinstate accused student for Spring semester. EUGENE VOLOKH |THE VOLOKH CONSPIRACY | 1.25.2020 6:45 PM From Doe v. Univ. of Connecticut, decided Thursday by Judge Michael P. Shea (D. Conn.): This case challenges the fairness of disciplinary proceedings brought against

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PR: Super Bowl Advisory: SAVE Urges Media to Assure Accurate Reporting on Sex-Trafficking Issue

PRESS RELEASE Contact: Rebecca Stewart Telephone: 513-479-3335 Email: info@saveservices.org SUPER BOWL ADVISORY: SAVE URGES MEDIA TO ASSURE ACCURATE REPORTING ON SEX-TRAFFICKING ISSUE WASHINGTON / January 24, 2020 – The Super Bowl, THE nation’s premiere sports event, will be held on February 2. In previous years, media outlets have used the event to highlight the problem

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Title IX

Sokolow’s Astute Observations On The Failure of Title IX

https://blog.simplejustice.us/2020/01/22/sokolows-astute-observations-on-the-failure-of-title-ix/ Sokolow’s Astute Observations On The Failure of Title IX As a guy who earns his living off advising colleges how to run their campus sex tribunals to assure the guy loses while creating plausible deniability to avoid liability, and as president of ATIXA, the Association of Title IX Administrators, an association dedicated to

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Department of Education

Secretary DeVos Announces New, Proactive Civil Rights Compliance Center within Office for Civil Rights

https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/secretary-devos-announces-new-proactive-civil-rights-compliance-center-within-office-civil-rights?utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_name=&utm_source=govdelivery&utm_term= Secretary DeVos Announces New, Proactive Civil Rights Compliance Center within Office for Civil Rights ‘OPEN Center’ will focus on Outreach, Prevention, Education and Non-discrimination to Promote Equal Access in Education JANUARY 21, 2020 Contact: Press Office, (202) 401-1576, press@ed.gov WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced today that the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at

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Title IX

Colorado’s 11-member Title IX review committee includes one rep for accused students

https://www.thecollegefix.com/colorados-11-member-title-ix-review-committee-includes-one-rep-for-accused-students/ Colorado’s 11-member Title IX review committee includes one rep for accused students GREG PIPER – ASSOCIATE EDITOR •JANUARY 17, 2020 Heavily stacked with pro-accuser representatives Personnel is policy, as activists sometimes say. And Colorado has made clear via its personnel that it intends to ignore both the courts and the Trump administration’s forthcoming regulations on

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Title IX

Sharf: Colorado Higher Ed Circles the Title IX Wagons

https://pagetwo.completecolorado.com/2020/01/16/sharf-higher-ed-circles-the-title-ix-wagons-in-colorado/ Sharf: Colorado higher ed circles the Title IX wagons January 16, 2020 By Joshua Sharf The Colorado Department of Higher Education has announced its appointments to its Title IX review committee, and they seem likely to reinforce the system’s bias against college men. This shouldn’t be too surprising coming from a governor who’s OK with campus kangaroo

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Title IX

Brett Sokolow criticizes live hearings and cross-examination, suggests there may be ‘clever work-arounds’

Brett Sokolow criticizes live hearings and cross-examination, suggests there may be ‘clever work-arounds’ by Samantha Harris January 15, 2020 Today in Inside Higher Ed, higher education risk-management specialist Brett Sokolow shares his thoughts on the changes coming to campus sexual misconduct adjudications when the Department of Education issues its new Title IX regulations. While he says that “[p]erhaps

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Campus Due Process Sexual Assault

End to the Campus Kangaroo: Department of Education Needs to Promptly Implement New Title IX Regulation

SAVE: Stop Abusive and Violent Environments January 12, 2020 Constitutionally rooted due process is one of the foundations of American society, because it protects individuals from government over-reach and from false allegations. In 1975, Judge Henry Friendly identified key due process procedures.[1] An unbiased tribunal. Notice of the proposed action and the grounds asserted for

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Campus Due Process Sexual Assault

PR: SAVE Calls on Lawmakers to Rein in the Campus Kangaroo

PRESS RELEASE Contact: Rebecca Stewart Telephone: 513-479-3335 Email: info@saveservices.org SAVE Calls on Lawmakers to Rein in the Campus Kangaroo WASHINGTON / January 8, 2020 – After nine years of campus adjudications that triggered thousands of federal complaints and hundreds of lawsuits, SAVE — a national policy organization — is calling on lawmakers to take steps

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Title IX

2019 in Review in Accused Student Litigation

https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2020/01/07/2019-in-review-in-accused-student-litigation/ 2019 in Review in Accused Student Litigation By KC Johnson January 7, 2020 In an environment where accused students too often need to go to court to undo unfair Title IX adjudications, lawsuits against universities continued apace in 2019. A critical ruling in the Seventh Circuit highlighted the year, but some troubling rulings elsewhere