To accomplish these objectives, Congress directed all agencies extending financial assistance to educational institutions to develop procedures for terminating financial assistance to institutions that violate Title IX. In concluding that the district court's interpretation and application of the three-part test creates a quota, Brown errs, in part, because it fails to recognize that (i) the substantial proportionality test of prong one is only the starting point, and not the conclusion, of the analysis; and (ii) prong three is not implicated unless a gender-based disparity with respect to athletics participation opportunities has been shown to exist. B. at 19-20. Title IX and its implementing regulations protect the class for whose special benefit the statute was enacted. For the reasons that follow, we conclude that no exception to the law of the case doctrine applies here and, therefore, that Cohen II's rulings of law control the disposition of this appeal. 2264, 2274, 2277, 135 L.Ed.2d 735 (1996) (viewing Virginia's benign justification for a gender classification skeptically); Shuford v. Alabama State Bd. The district court found from extensive testimony that the donor-funded women's gymnastics, women's fencing and women's ski teams, as well as at least one women's club team, the water polo team, had demonstrated the interest and ability to compete at the top varsity level and would benefit from university funding.4 Id. 2097, 132 L.Ed.2d 158 (1995) (remanding for review under strict scrutiny a challenge to a federal statute establishing a government-wide goal for awarding to minority businesses not less than 5% of the total value of all prime contracts and subcontracts for each fiscal year); Metro Broadcasting v. FCC, 497 U.S. 547, 110 S.Ct. We reject Brown's kitchen-sink characterization of the Policy Interpretation and its challenge to the substantial deference accorded that document by the district court. Unless the two genders participate equally in athletics, members of the underrepresented sex would have the ability to demand a varsity level team at any time if they can show sufficient interest. [24] This provision governs the distribution of athletic scholarships under the general caption of financial assistance in education programs. Only where the plaintiff meets the burden of proof on these elements and the institution fails to show as an affirmative defense a history and continuing practice of program expansion responsive to the interests and abilities of the . at 210-13. As applied in the federal courts today, the law of the case doctrine more closely resembles the doctrine of stare decisis. 706, 102 L.Ed.2d 854, the Court applied strict scrutiny in striking down a municipal minority set-aside program for city construction contracts. 1681(b). If statistical evidence of interest levels is not to be considered by courts, however, there is no way for schools to determine whether they are in compliance. the participation opportunities offered by an institution are measured by counting the actual participants on intercollegiate teams. at 1846-47. Here, gender-conscious relief was ordered by an Article III court, constitutionally compelled to have before it litigants with standing to raise the cause of action alleged; for the purpose of providing relief upon a duly adjudicated determination that specific defendants had discriminated against a certified class of women in violation of a federal anti-discrimination statute; based upon findings of fact that were subject to the Federal Rules of Evidence. Id. It can hardly be assumed that the Court intended to include gender-based classifications within Adarand's precedential scope or to elevate, sub silentio, the level of scrutiny to be applied by a reviewing court to such classifications. Two schools declined to include Brown in future varsity schedules when women's volleyball was demoted to donor-funded status. A pragmatic overview of the effect of the three-prong test leads me to reject the majority's claim that the three-prong test does not amount to a quota because it involves multiple prongs. Here, Brown argues that its challenge is to the decision of the district court. at 2274 (citing J.E.B. The methods of determining interest and ability do not disadvantage the members of an underrepresented sex;c.The methods of determining ability take into account team performance records; andd. denied, 516 U.S. 1159, 116 S.Ct. 92-2483 549 U.S 497 (2007) Brief Fact Summary. On remand, the district court's liability analysis explicitly and faithfully adhered to Cohen II's mandate, and we are bound to do the same at this stage of the litigation, absent one of the exceptional circumstances discussed supra. Congress enacted Title IX in response to its finding-after extensive hearings held in 1970 by the House Special Subcommittee on Education-of pervasive discrimination against women with respect to educational opportunities. 612 (1974).6 The regulations specifically address athletics at 34 C.F.R. As Brown puts it, [t]he [equal protection] violation arises from the court's holding that Title IX requires the imposition of quotas, preferential treatment, and disparate treatment in the absence of a compelling state interest and a determination that the remedial measure is narrowly tailored to serve that interest. Reply Br. at 8. To the extent that the rate of interest in athletics diverges between men and women at any institution, the district court's interpretation would require that such an institution treat an individual male student's athletic interest and an individual female student's athletic interest completely differently: one student's reasonable interest would have to be met, by law, while meeting the other student's interest would only aggravate the lack of proportionality giving rise to the legal duty. Thus, the legislative history strongly suggests that the underscored language defines what is proscribed (in the contexts of admissions and hiring) in terms of a geographical area, beyond the institution, and does not refer to an imbalance within the university, with respect to the representation of each gender in intercollegiate athletics, as compared to the gender makeup of the student body. We emphasize two points at the outset. We agree with the prior panel and the district court that Brown's relative interests approach cannot withstand scrutiny on either legal or policy grounds, Cohen II, 991 F.2d at 900, because it disadvantages women and undermines the remedial purposes of Title IX by limiting required program expansion for the underrepresented sex to the status quo level of relative interests, Cohen III, 879 F.Supp. We then consider the district court's order rejecting Brown's plan and the specific relief ordered by the court in its place. at 3008-09 (holding that benign race-conscious measures mandated by Congress are constitutionally permissible to the extent that they serve important governmental objectives within the power of Congress and are substantially related to achievement of those objectives). at 901, but also that a second element-unmet interest-is present, id., meaning that the underrepresented gender has not been fully and effectively accommodated by the institution's present athletic program, id. As recently set forth in Virginia, [p]arties who seek to defend gender-based government action must demonstrate an exceedingly persuasive justification for that action. Virginia, 518 U.S. at ----, 116 S.Ct. See Cohen v. Brown Univ., 809 F. Supp. 1053, 94 L.Ed.2d 203 (1987) (upholding a one-black-for-one-white promotion requirement ordered by a district court as an interim measure in response to proven discrimination by a state employer); Local 28 ofSheet Metal Workers v. EEOC, 478 U.S. 421, 106 S.Ct. Stay up-to-date with how the law affects your life. According to Brown's relative interests interpretation of the equal accommodation principle, the gender-based disparity in athletics participation opportunities at Brown is due to a lack of interest on the part of its female students, rather than to discrimination, and any attempt to remedy the disparity is, by definition, an unlawful quota. at 725-28, because [s]ocietal discrimination, without more, is too amorphous a basis for imposing a racially classified remedy, Wygant, 476 U.S. at 276, 106 S.Ct. (iii) No additional discretionary funds will be used for athletics. Cf. 1764, 36 L.Ed.2d 583, and Croson, 488 U.S. 469, 109 S.Ct. We held that the district court erred in placing upon Brown the burden of proof under prong three of the three-part test used to determine whether an intercollegiate athletics program complies with Title IX, discussed infra. In the first appeal, this court rejected Brown's Fifth Amendment equal protection challenge to the statutory scheme. During the same academic year, Brown's undergraduate enrollment comprised 52.4% (2,951) men and 47.6% (2,683) women. Id. 2581, 135 L.Ed.2d 1095 (1996).27, The majority claims that neither the Policy Interpretation nor the district court's interpretation of it, mandates statistical balancing. Majority Opinion at 175. at 456, and the test applied in both Metro Broadcasting and Webster.The phrase exceedingly persuasive justification has been employed routinely by the Supreme Court in applying intermediate scrutiny to gender discrimination claims and is, in effect, a short-hand expression of the well-established test. Indeed, despite Brown's attempt to present evidence in support of its claim, the majority characterizes Brown's argument as an unproven assertion. Majority Opinion at 178.30. In considering plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction in Cohen I, the district court (i) paid meticulous attention to the parties' prospects for success over the long haul; (ii) plainly visualized both the factual intricacies and legal complexities that characterize Title IX litigation; (iii) held a lengthy adversary hearing and reviewed voluminous written submissions; and (iv) correctly focused on the three-part accommodation test. Cohen II, 991 F.2d at 903. - 991 F.2d 888 (1st Cir. at 896-97; and that, [b]ecause the agency's rendition stands upon a plausible, if not inevitable, reading of Title IX, we are obligated to enforce the regulation according to its tenor, id. Mr. Brown is also the chairman of the firm's Executive Committee and the Managing Partner Elect.Mr. But any such departure demands special justification.) (quoting Arizona v. Rumsey, 467 U.S. 203, 212, 104 S.Ct. To do so, the school must fully and effectively accommodate the underrepresented gender's interests and abilities, even if that requires it to give the underrepresented gender (in this case, women) what amounts to a larger slice of a shrinking athletic-opportunity pie. at 3008. We have also recognized that this exception may apply in those rare situations where newly emergent authority, although not directly controlling, nevertheless offers a convincing reason for believing that the earlier panel, in light of the neoteric developments, would change its course. Id. For this reason, and because recruitment of interested athletes is at the discretion of the institution, there is a risk that the institution will recruit only enough women to fill positions in a program that already under represents women, and that the smaller size of the women's program will have the effect of discouraging women's participation. The regulation at issue in this case, 34 C.F.R. Id. at 27. The district court asserts that this is not a quota. 1681(b) (West 1990). Title IX provides that [n]o person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance. 20 U.S.C.A. It is obvious that Brown's plan was addressed to this court, rather than to offering a workable solution to a difficult problem. This assumption is erroneous because the proposition for which Cohen II cited Metro Broadcasting as authority has not been vitiated by Adarand, is of no consequence to our disposition of the issues raised in this litigation, and is, in any event, unchallenged here.19. For the last twenty years, the Supreme Court has applied intermediate scrutiny to all cases raising equal protection challenges to gender-based classifications, including the Supreme Court's most recent gender discrimination case, United States v. Virginia, 518 U.S. 515, 116 S.Ct. In addition, a gender-conscious remedial scheme is constitutionally permissible if it directly protects the interests of the disproportionately burdened gender. 1992). Accordingly, we have held that only a few exceptional circumstances can overcome the interests served by adherence to the doctrine and these exceptions are narrowly circumscribed. at 190. Virginia drastically revise[d] our established standards for reviewing sex-based classifications. Id. Despite these statements, however, the majority in its opinion today, and the district court before it, have failed to give Brown University freedom to craft its own athletic program and to choose the priorities of that program. Cohen II, 991 F.2d at 892 n. 2; Cohen I, 809 F.Supp. at 2117). See Linkletter v. Walker, 381 U.S. 618, 627, 85 S.Ct. The problem with the majority's argument can be illustrated with a hypothetical college admissions policy that would require proportionality between the gender ratio of the local student aged population and that of admitted students. for Women v. Hogan, 458 U.S. 718, 725, 102 S.Ct. IA, respectively, are co-counsel for the plaintiff class in Cohen v. Brown University, along with Lynette Labinger of . 71,418, are not manifestly contrary to the objectives of Title IX, and Congress has specifically delegated to an agency the responsibility to articulate standards governing a particular area, we must accord the ensuing regulation considerable deference. As the prior panel recognized, while the question of full and effective accommodation of athletics interests and abilities is potentially a complicated issue where plaintiffs seek to create a new team or to elevate to varsity status a team that has never competed at the varsity level, no such difficulty is presented here, where plaintiffs seek to reinstate what were successful university-funded teams right up until the moment the teams were demoted.16 Cohen II, 991 F.2d at 904; see also Cohen I, 809 F.Supp. at ----, 116 S.Ct. 2021), cert. While some gender-conscious relief may adversely impact one gender-a fact that has not been demonstrated in this case-that alone would not make the relief affirmative action or the consequence of that relief reverse discrimination. To the contrary, race- and gender-conscious remedies are both appropriate and constitutionally permissible under a federal anti-discrimination regime, although such remedial measures are still subject to equal protection review. 11. Had Congress intended to entrench, rather than change, the status quo-with its historical emphasis on men's participation opportunities to the detriment of women's opportunities-it need not have gone to all the trouble of enacting Title IX. Courts and institutions must have some way of determining whether an institution complies with the mandate of Title IX and its supporting regulations to provide equal athletics opportunities for both genders, despite the fact that the institution maintains single-sex teams, and some way of fashioning a remedy upon a determination that the institution does not equally and effectively accommodate the interests and abilities of both genders. I am in square disagreement with the majority, who believe that [n]o aspect of the Title IX regime at issue in this case mandates gender-based preferences or quotas. Majority Opinion at 170. 39,251-52 (remarks of Rep. Mink and Rep. Green). 3331, 3335-36 and n. 9, 73 L.Ed.2d 1090 (1982); Mills v. Habluetzel, 456 U.S. 91, 99, 102 S.Ct. Cohen II, 991 F.2d at 903. On October 27, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit upheld the approval of the Amendment to the Joint Agreement. We assume, without deciding, that Brown has not waived its equal protection claim and has standing to raise it. 101 F.3d 155 (1st Cir. We emphasize that, on the facts of this case, Brown's lack-of-interest arguments are of no consequence. This policy is comparable to prong one of the three prong test and is, without a doubt, a quota. In this case, however, the record before the prior panel was sufficiently developed and the facts necessary to shape the proper legal matrix [we]re sufficiently clear, Cohen II, 991 F.2d at 904, and nothing in the record subsequently developed at trial constitutes substantially different evidence that might undermine the validity of the prior panel's rulings of law. The right to injunctive relief under Title IX appears to have been impliedly accepted by the Supreme Court in Franklin. at 1848, on the basis of facts insufficient to support a prima facie case of a constitutional or statutory violation, Croson, 488 U.S. at 500, 109 S.Ct. Later in the opinion, however, when the level of interest among women at Brown is at issue, the court adopts a much more critical attitude towards statistical evidence: [T]here exists the danger that, rather than providing a true measure of women's interest in sports, statistical evidence purporting to reflect women's interest instead provides only a measure of the very discrimination that is and has been the basis for women's lack of opportunity. Majority Opinion at 179. If the athletes competing in sports for which the university is permitted to field single-sex teams are excluded from the calculation of participation rates, the proportion of women participants would increase dramatically and prong one might be satisfied. The Court also requires a focus on whether the proffered justification is exceedingly persuasive. Id. 2333, 2341-42, 90 L.Ed.2d 921 (1986)) (other citation omitted). I leave it entirely to Brown's discretion to decide how it will balance its program to provide equal opportunities for its men and women athletes. Brown has contended throughout this litigation that the significant disparity in athletics opportunities for men and women at Brown is the result of a gender-based differential in the level of interest in sports and that the district court's application of the three-part test requires universities to provide athletics opportunities for women to an extent that exceeds their relative interests and abilities in sports. . At the time of Cohen v. Brown University, 991 F.2d 888 (1st Cir. at 906-07. See Miller v. Johnson, 515 U.S. 900, ----, 115 S.Ct. I fail to see how these statements can be reconciled with the claim that Brown cannot satisfy prong two by reducing the number of participation opportunities for men. This is a successful motion to enforce a 1998 court judgment against Brown University for violating Title IX. docx.docx from POLI 212 at Walden University. The Bond InjunctionSchooner Lost. 5. Brown University, as an Ivy League institution, does not grant athletic scholarships to its students. Brown v. Martinez: accidentally shot watermelon stealer Discipline Parents and in loco parentis are . The agency responsible for administering Title IX is the United States Department of Education (DED), through its Office for Civil Rights (OCR).5 Congress expressly delegated to DED the authority to promulgate regulations for determining whether an athletics program complies with Title IX. By the 1993-94 year, there were 12 university-funded men's teams and 13 university funded women's teams. Id. This is a class action lawsuit charging Brown University, its president, and its athletics director (collectively Brown) with discrimination against women in the operation of its intercollegiate athletics program, in violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. Cohen v. Brown University Appeal Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, Case No. See Cohen II, 991 F.2d at 895; Cohen III, 879 F.Supp. & Constr. Cohen v. Brown University 1st Circuit Court of Appeals 991 F.2d 888 (1st Cir. Prong one, for example, requires that participation opportunities be provided proportionately to enrollment, but does not mandate any absolute number of such opportunities. Nevertheless, the remedy ordered for a violation of a federal anti-discrimination statute is still subject to equal protection review, assuming that it constitutes gender-conscious government action. Brown maintains that the district court's decision imposes upon universities the obligation to engage in preferential treatment for women by requiring quotas in excess of women's relative interests and abilities. [a]n institution does not provide equal opportunity if it caps its men's teams after they are well-stocked with high-caliber recruits while requiring women's teams to boost numbers by accepting walk-ons. Nevertheless, the doctrine serves important goals and must be treated respectfully and, in the absence of exceptional circumstances, applied according to its tenor. Rivera-Martinez, 931 F.2d at 151. The preliminary injunction issued by the district court in Cohen I, 809 F.Supp. Id. at ----, 116 S.Ct. Finding Brown's bare assertions to be unpersuasive, we decline the invitation to this court to change its mind. The precedent established by the prior panel is not clearly erroneous; it is the law of this case and the law of this circuit. Intermediate scrutiny does not require that there be no other way to accomplish the objectives, but even if that were the standard, it would be satisfied in the unique context presented by the application of Title IX to athletics. 2264, 135 L.Ed.2d 735 (1996) ( Virginia); see id. 515, ---------, 116 S.Ct. The Policy Interpretation was designed specifically for intercollegiate athletics.12 44 Fed.Reg. Early in the opinion, the majority approvingly cites to the statistical evaluations conducted in Cohen I, Cohen II, and Cohen III. Here, however, it has not been shown that Brown's men students will be disadvantaged by the full and effective accommodation of the athletics interests and abilities of its women students. Cases and commentators sometimes treat cases involving involuntarily implemented plans-e.g., plans adopted pursuant to a consent decree or a contempt order-as affirmative action cases. Under intermediate scrutiny, the burden of demonstrating an exceedingly persuasive justification for a government-imposed, gender-conscious classification is met by showing that the classification serves important governmental objectives, and that the means employed are substantially related to the achievement of those objectives. at 205-06, 99 S.Ct. at 189. In its liability analysis, the district court expressly accepted Cohen II' s elucidation of the applicable law, Cohen III, 879 F.Supp. Read Cohen v. Brown University, 991 F.2d 888, see flags on bad law, and search Casetext's comprehensive legal database All State & Fed. Brown impliedly assumes that Adarand' s partial overruling of Metro Broadcasting invalidates the prior panel's disposition of Brown's equal protection challenge by virtue of its passing citation to Metro Broadcasting. Toggle navigation . For example, if a university chooses to sponsor a football team, it is permitted to sponsor only a men's team. (v) Brown will make explicit a de facto junior varsity team for women's field hockey. See Adarand, 515 U.S. at ----, 115 S.Ct. 106.41(c)(1), the first of the non-exhaustive list of ten factors to be considered in determining whether equal athletics opportunities are available to both genders. at 1848. 2000e-2(j), and was specifically designed to prohibit quotas in university admissions and hiring, based upon the percentage of individuals of one gender in a geographical community. at 541). at 71,413 n. 1. 71,413, 71,414. Brown argues that the district court erred in concluding that it was obligated to give substantial deference to the Policy Interpretation, on the ground that the interpretation is not a worthy candidate for deference, Reply Br. The original Cohen case was settled in 1998 by Joint Agreement. 2097, 132 L.Ed.2d 158 (1995) ( Adarand), controls this case necessarily presumes that Adarand constitutes a contrary intervening decision by controlling authority on point that (i) undermines the validity of Cohen II; (ii) compels us to depart from the law of the case doctrine; and (iii) therefore mandates that we reexamine Brown's equal protection claim. at 8-9 n. 2 (While [other] indications of interest may be helpful to OCR in ascertaining likely interest on campus, particularly in the absence of more direct indicia[,] an institution is expected to meet the actual interests and abilities of its students and admitted students.). In short, Brown treats the three-part test for compliance as a one-part test for strict liability. 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