at 211. 549 U.S 497 (2007) Brief Fact Summary. Thus, at the heart of this litigation is the question whether Title IX permits Brown to deny its female students equal opportunity to participate in sports, based upon its unproven assertion that the district court's finding of a significant disparity in athletics opportunities for male and female students reflects, not discrimination in Brown's intercollegiate athletics program, but a lack of interest on the part of its female students that is unrelated to a lack of opportunities. Whatever may be the merits of adopting strict scrutiny as the standard to be applied to gender-based classifications, it is inappropriate to suggest, as Brown does, that Frontiero compels its application here.Brown's assertion that Adarand obligates this court to apply Croson to its equal protection claim is also incorrect. 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. at 463 (statistics exhibit a variety of shortcomings that seriously impugn their value to equal protection analysis); id. 13. 106.41, the Policy Interpretation, and the mandate of Cohen II. Contact us. 2000d (Title VI).8 See Cannon, 441 U.S. at 696, 99 S.Ct. 1681(b) as a categorical proscription against consideration of gender parity. FindLaw.com Free, trusted legal information for consumers and legal professionals, SuperLawyers.com Directory of U.S. attorneys with the exclusive Super Lawyers rating, Abogado.com The #1 Spanish-language legal website for consumers, LawInfo.com Nationwide attorney directory and legal consumer resources. 1211, 1221-22, 79 L.Ed.2d 516 (1984) (holding that Title IX was program-specific and thus applied only to those university programs that actually receive federal funds and not to the rest of the university), with athletics prominently in mind. Prior to the trial on the merits that gave rise to this appeal, the district court granted plaintiffs' motion for class certification and denied defendants' motion to dismiss. Neither the Policy Interpretation's three-part test, nor the district court's interpretation of it, mandates statistical balancing; [r]ather, the policy interpretation merely creates a presumption that a school is in compliance with Title IX and the applicable regulation when it achieves such a statistical balance. Kelley, 35 F.3d at 271. at ----, 116 S.Ct. Thirty years ago, a group of female athletes sued Brown University in a landmark case (Cohen v.Brown University) that helped paved the way for women to gain equal footing with men in sports through Title IX.One of the plaintiffs was Lisa Kaplowitz, a 17-year-old star gymnast who testified about the opportunities she lost when the program was initially cut and the unfairness of that decision. Instead, this approach freezes that disparity by law, thereby disadvantaging further the underrepresented gender. 26. THE PLAINTIFF CLASS. at 71,413 n. 1. 515, ----, ----, 116 S.Ct. I conclude, therefore, that Adarand and Virginia are irreconcilable with the analysis in Cohen II and, accordingly, we must follow the guidance of the Supreme Court in this appeal. (iv) Four new women's junior varsity teams-basketball, lacrosse, soccer, and tennis-will be university-funded. Brown sought to introduce the NCAA Gender Equity Study and the results of an undergraduate poll on student interest in athletics, but was not permitted to do so. at 2113. See McDonough Power Equip., Inc. v. Greenwood, 464 U.S. 548, 553, 104 S.Ct. denied, 502 U.S. 862, 112 S.Ct. Snyder v. Turk: doctor shoved nurse into cavity . at 3026 (emphasis added). Reviewing the district court's evidentiary rulings for abuse of discretion, see Sinai v. New England Tel. We do not question Cohen II's application of 1681(b). First, notwithstanding Brown's persistent invocation of the inflammatory terms affirmative action, preference, and quota, this is not an affirmative action case. At the time of Cohen v. Brown University, 991 F.2d 888 (1st Cir.1993) (Cohen II ), the standard intermediate scrutiny . Cohen III, 879 F.Supp. A central issue in this case is the manner in which athletic participation opportunities are counted. Cohen II, 991 F.2d at 903. As a result, I opt for Brown's construction of prong three, which, as we have discussed, infra, is also a reasonable reading. Amy Cohen v. Brown University, 991 F.2d 888, 1st Cir. of Higher Educ., 524 F.Supp. at 897. Notwithstanding the requirements of paragraph (a) of this section, a recipient may operate or sponsor separate teams for members of each sex where selection of such teams is based upon competitive skill or the activity involved is a contact sport. 106.41(b) (1995) ([A] recipient may operate or sponsor separate teams for members of each sex where selection for such teams is based upon competitive skill or the activity involved is a contact sport.) (emphasis added). docx.docx from POLI 212 at Walden University. at 205-06, 99 S.Ct. 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. The district court did not find that full and effective accommodation of the athletics interests and abilities of Brown's female students would disadvantage Brown's male students. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. A viable tennis team may require only a single player. at 189. Request Update Get E-Mail Alerts : Text: Citations (268) Cited By (1) UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT No. As explained previously, Title IX as it applies to athletics is distinct from other anti-discrimination regimes in that it is impossible to determine compliance or to devise a remedy without counting and comparing opportunities with gender explicitly in mind. at 2117). In addition, a gender-conscious remedial scheme is constitutionally permissible if it directly protects the interests of the disproportionately burdened gender. A second Supreme Court case has also made it necessary to review our decision in Cohen II. Early in the opinion, the majority approvingly cites to the statistical evaluations conducted in Cohen I, Cohen II, and Cohen III. At FindLaw.com, we pride ourselves on being the number one source of free legal information and resources on the web. Any studies or surveys they might conduct in order to assess their own compliance would, in the event of litigation, be deemed irrelevant. 3331, 3336, 73 L.Ed.2d 1090 (1982), with Metro Broadcasting, 497 U.S. at 564-65, 110 S.Ct. The original Cohen case was settled in 1998 by Joint Agreement. In contrast to the employment and admissions contexts, in the athletics context, gender is not an irrelevant characteristic. 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. at 895. Also consistent with the school desegregation cases, the substantial proportionality test of prong one is applied under the Title IX framework, not mechanically, but case-by-case, in a fact-specific manner. Id. Accordingly, even assuming that the three-part test creates a gender classification that favors women, allowing consideration of gender in determining the remedy for a Title IX violation serves the important objective of ensur[ing] that in instances where overall athletic opportunities decrease, the actual opportunities available to the underrepresented gender do not. Kelley, 35 F.3d at 272. 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. In order to bring Brown into compliance with prong one under defendants' Phase II, I would have to order Brown to cut enough men's teams to eradicate approximately 213 men's varsity positions. Junior varsity squads, by definition, do not meet this criterion. Under Brown's interpretation of the three-part test, there can never be a remedy for a violation of Title IX's equal opportunity mandate. 136, 139 (1994); Grottveit, supra. Regardless of the efforts made by the academic institution, the specter of a lawsuit would be ever-present. In 1978, several years after the promulgation of the regulations, OCR published a proposed Policy Interpretation, the purpose of which was to clarify the obligations of federal aid recipients under Title IX to provide equal opportunities in athletics programs. Learn more about FindLaws newsletters, including our terms of use and privacy policy. Comm'n, 463 U.S. 582, 103 S.Ct. For the purposes of this appeal, we must review findings of fact under a clearly erroneous standard, Reich v. Newspapers of New England, Inc., 44 F.3d 1060, 1069 (1st Cir.1995) and findings of law de novo, Portsmouth v. Schlesinger, 57 F.3d 12, 14 (1st Cir.1995). at 71,415. at 3008, in upholding against a Fifth Amendment equal protection challenge a benign race-based affirmative action program that was adopted by an agency at the explicit direction of Congress. (internal citations omitted). Under these circumstances, the district court's finding that there are interested women able to compete at the university-funded varsity level, Cohen III, 879 F.Supp. Law School Case Brief; Cohen v. Brown Univ. While this court has approved the importation of Title VII standards into Title IX analysis, we have explicitly limited the crossover to the employment context. at 1956. 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. Id. at 2288 (Rehnquist, C.J., concurring in the judgment) (collecting cases).22. of Cal. 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. - 101 F.3d 155 (1st Cir. Cohen II held that the Policy Interpretation is entitled to substantial deference because it is the enforcing agency's considered interpretation of the regulation. 991 F.2d at 896-97. First, despite the fact that 76 men and 30 women participated on donor-funded varsity teams, Brown's proposed plan disregarded donor-funded varsity teams. See, e.g., Mississippi Univ. at 209. We must, as Brown urges, reexamine the Equal Protection challenge to the three-prong test as interpreted by the district court. The district court's narrow, literal interpretation should be rejected because prong three cannot be read in isolation. It does not follow from the fact that 1681(b) was patterned after a Title VII provision that Title VII standards should be applied to a Title IX analysis of whether an intercollegiate athletics program equally accommodates both genders, as Brown contends. We point out that Virginia adds nothing to the analysis of equal protection challenges to gender-based classifications that has not been part of that analysis since 1979, long before Cohen II was decided. This case presents the issue of the legality of a federal district court's determination, based upon adjudicated findings of fact, that a federal anti-discrimination statute has been violated, and of the statutory and constitutional propriety of the judicial remedy ordered to provide redress to plaintiffs with standing who have been injured by the violation. Cohen v. Smith: male nurse touched no touch pregnant lady. As was also the case under strict scrutiny review prior to Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena, 515 U.S. 200, 115 S.Ct. 1681-1688 (1988) ("Title IX"). As we have explained, Croson's factual concerns are not raised by a district court's determination-predicated upon duly adjudicated factual findings bearing multiple indicia of reliability and specificity-of gender discrimination in violation of a federal statute. It is women and not men who have historically and who continue to be underrepresented in sports, not only at Brown, but at universities nationwide. We think it important to bear in mind, however, the congressional concerns that inform the proper interpretation of this provision. 30. 28. See Adarand, 515 U.S. 200, 115 S.Ct. Cohen v. Brown University Appeal Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, Case No. Metro Broadcasting, and our application of its intermediate scrutiny standard in Cohen II, omitted the additional skeptical scrutiny requirement of an exceedingly persuasive justification for gender-based government action. In computing these figures, the district court counted as participants in intercollegiate athletics for purposes of Title IX analysis those athletes who were members of varsity teams for the majority of the last complete season. Based on the facts of this case, the Court holds that . It is no less a quota if an exception exists for schools whose gender ratio differs from that of the local population but which admit every applicant of the underrepresented gender. For example, the district court found that some schools are reluctant to include donor-funded teams in their varsity schedules3 and that donor-funded teams are unable to obtain varsity-level coaching, recruits, and funds for travel, equipment, and post-season competition. During the same period, Brown's undergraduate enrollment comprised 5,722 students, of which 48.86% (2,796) were men and 51.14% (2,926) were women. To adopt the relative interests approach would be, not only to overrule Cohen II, but to rewrite the enforcing agency's interpretation of its own regulation so as to incorporate an entirely different standard for Title IX compliance. 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. Id. at 189-90. Brown contends that we are free to disregard the prior panel's explication of the law in Cohen II. ; see also United States v. Reveron Martinez, 836 F.2d 684, 687 n. 2 (1st Cir.1988) (To be sure, there may be occasions when courts can-and should-loosen the iron grip of stare decisis. A university does not treat its men's and women's teams equally if it allows the coaches of men's teams to set their own maximum capacity limits but overrides the judgment of coaches of women's teams on the same matter. We also observed, however, that [w]e are a society that cherishes academic freedom and recognizes that universities deserve great leeway in their operations. 991 F.2d at 906 (citing Wynne v. Tufts Univ. In other words. Finally, the third prong, interpreted as the majority advocates, dispenses with statistical balancing only because it choose to accord zero weight to one side of the balance. Brown's decision to demote the women's volleyball and gymnastics teams and the men's water polo and golf teams from university-funded varsity status was apparently made in response to a university-wide cost-cutting directive. at 214; see also Cohen II, 991 F.2d at 898 n. 15 (noting that a school may achieve compliance with Title IX by reducing opportunities for the overrepresented gender). Because the precise questions presented regarding the proper interpretation of the Title IX framework were considered and decided by a panel of this court in the prior appeal, and because no exception to the law of the case doctrine is presented, we have no occasion to reopen the issue here. District Court Order at 6 (footnote omitted). At the time of trial, Brown offered 479 university-funded varsity positions for men, as compared to 312 for women; and 76 donor-funded varsity positions for men, as compared to 30 for women. at 2275-exceedingly persuasive justification in light of section 1681(b)'s no quota provision. The Court in Adarand singled out Metro Broadcasting as a significant departure from much of the Equal Protection jurisprudence that had come before it, in part because it suggested that benign government race-conscious classifications should be treated less skeptically than others. We think it clear that neither the Title IX framework nor the district court's interpretation of it mandates a gender-based quota scheme. Majority Opinion at 185 (quoting Cohen III). This action was taken to ensure that the Order was final for purposes of this court's jurisdiction, and to expedite the appeal process. Idk. Note that the focus is on the government's ability to favor women in this context, rather than on an important government objective, suggesting that the court considered the issue to be one of benign discrimination. 1681(b). at 71,418). What is important for our purposes is that the Supreme Court appears to have elevated the test applicable to sex discrimination cases to require an exceedingly persuasive justification. This is evident from the language of both the majority opinion and the dissent in Virginia. 706, 721-22, 102 L.Ed.2d 854 (1989). Ready, set, go. Market-leading rankings and editorial commentary - see the top law firms & lawyers for Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco) in United States A recipient which operates or sponsors interscholastic, intercollegiate, club or intramural athletics shall provide equal athletic opportunity for members of both sexes. The law of the case doctrine precludes relitigation of the legal issues presented in successive stages of a single case once those issues have been decided. The district court concluded that intercollegiate athletics opportunities means real opportunities, not illusory ones, and therefore should be measured by counting actual participants. Id. Brown argued at trial that there is no consistent measure of actual participation rates because team size varies throughout the athletic season, and that there is no consistent measure of actual participation rates because there are alternative definitions of participant that yield very different participation totals. Id. 11. Id. As noted previously, Croson is an affirmative action case and does not control review of a judicial determination that a federal anti-discrimination statute has been violated. Brown merely asserts, however, that the study was admissible under Rule 803, id. at 1848. This difficulty was recognized in Cohen II, which stated that the mere fact that there are some female students interested in a sport does not ipso facto require the school to provide a varsity team in order to comply with the third benchmark. Cohen II 991 F.2d at 898. As previously noted, Title IX itself specifies only that the statute shall not be interpreted to require gender-based preferential or disparate treatment. Further, inappropriately relying on Frontiero, 411 U.S. 677, 93 S.Ct. The individual defendants are, respectively, the President and Athletic Director of the University. 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. In 1993-94, then, Brown's varsity program-including both university- and donor-funded sports-afforded over 200 more positions for men than for women. of Med., 976 F.2d 791, 795 (1st Cir.1992), cert. That prong merely recognizes that a school may not be able to meet the quotas of the first or third prong immediately, and therefore deems it sufficient to show program expansion that is responsive to the interests of the underrepresented sex. We therefore affirm in all respects the district court's analysis and rulings on the issue of liability. We note that Brown presses its relative interests argument under both prong one and prong three. App. . At the time of Cohen v. Brown University, 991 F.2d 888 (1st Cir. The only women's varsity team created after this period was winter track, in 1982. Id. Inc. v. Pena, 515 U.S. 200, ----, 115 S.Ct. Cohen v. Brown University 1st Circuit Court of Appeals 991 F.2d 888 (1st Cir. By the 1993-94 year, there were 12 university-funded men's teams and 13 university funded women's teams. Indeed, every circuit court to have reviewed a Title IX claim of discrimination in athletics since Cohen II was decided is in accord with its explication of the Title IX regime as it applies to athletics. They heated the cellar accordingly but this raised the temperature on the floor above, which caused the plaintiff's stock of delicate brown paper to dry and diminish in value. Cohen v. Brown is a class-action lawsuit named for Amy Cohen, a former gymnast and plaintiff in the suit. Third, even if Adarand did apply, it does not dictate the level of scrutiny to be applied in this case, as Brown concedes. 1572, 55 L.Ed.2d 797 (1978) (summary affirmance of a district court decision upholding a provision of the Railroad Retirement Act that allowed women to retire at age 60 while men could not retire until age 65). See Cohen II, 991 F.2d at 901 ([T]here is no need to search for analogies where, as in the Title IX milieu, the controlling statutes and regulations are clear.). The district court subsequently issued a modified order, requiring Brown to submit a compliance plan within 60 days. 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. Under Cohen II's controlling interpretation, prong three demands not merely some accommodation, but full and effective accommodation. See Missouri v. Jenkins, 515 U.S. 70, ----, 115 S.Ct. The Policy Interpretation states that its general principles will often apply to club, intramural, and interscholastic athletic programs, which are also covered by the regulation. 44 Fed.Reg. In counting participation opportunities, therefore, it does not make sense to include in the calculus athletes participating in contact sports that include only men's teams. In that case, Congress specifically found that more frequent and lower age limits were being applied to women than to men in the labor market. 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. 15. 17. Brown's interpretation of full and effective accommodation is simply not the law. Cohen III, 879 F.Supp. After rejecting Brown's proposed plan, but bearing in mind Brown's stated objectives, the district court fashioned its own remedy: I have concluded that Brown's stated objectives will be best served if I design a remedy to meet the requirements of prong three rather than prong one. No. After Cohen II, it cannot be maintained that the relative interests approach is compatible with Title IX's equal accommodation principle as it has been interpreted by this circuit. at 565, 110 S.Ct. In Mora, the plaintiff began clocking into work via fingerprint scan in 2014. 3331, 3335-36 and n. 9, 73 L.Ed.2d 1090 (1982); Mills v. Habluetzel, 456 U.S. 91, 99, 102 S.Ct. 1192, 51 L.Ed.2d 360 (1977) (sex)). Appellee's Br. The plaintiff class comprises all present, future, and potential Brown University women students who participate, seek to participate, and/or are deterred from participating in intercollegiate athletics funded by Brown. of Bethlehem, Pa., 998 F.2d 168, 175 (1993) (observing that, although Title IX and its regulations apply equally to boys and girls, it would require blinders to ignore that the motivation for promulgation of the regulation on athletics was the historic emphasis on boys' athletic programs to the exclusion of girls' athletic programs in high schools as well as colleges), cert. It is clear, nevertheless, that Brown's proposal to cut men's teams is a permissible means of effectuating compliance with the statute. As the Kelley Court pointed out (in the context of analyzing the deference due the relevant athletics regulation and the Policy Interpretation): Undoubtedly the agency responsible for enforcement of the statute could have required schools to sponsor a women's program for every men's program offered and vice versa It was not unreasonable, however, for the agency to reject this course of action. Counting new women's junior varsity positions as equivalent to men's full varsity positions flagrantly violates the spirit and letter of Title IX; in no sense is an institution providing equal opportunity if it affords varsity positions to men but junior varsity positions to women. Section 1681(b) provides yet another reason why the district court's reading of prong three is troublesome and why Brown's reading is a reasonable alternative. 185, 214 (D.R.I.1995) ( Cohen III). V. Strong, of Raleigh, for defendant. See Cohen v. Brown Univ., 809 F. Supp. E.g., United States v. Paradise, 480 U.S. at 166 n. 16, 107 S.Ct. of Educ., 897 F.Supp. See Hogan, 458 U.S. at 728, 102 S.Ct. This led the Supreme Court to characterize the provision at issue as remedial rather than benign, noting that the provision had been repealed in 1972, roughly contemporaneously with congressional [anti-discrimination] reforms [that] have lessened the economic justification for the more favorable benefit computation for women. Our respect for academic freedom and reluctance to interject ourselves into the conduct of university affairs counsels that we give universities as much freedom as possible in conducting their operations consonant with constitutional and statutory limits. 20 U.S.C.A. As to prong three, the district court found that Brown had not fully and effectively accommodated the interest and ability of the underrepresented sex to the extent necessary to provide equal opportunity in the selection of sports and levels of competition available to members of both sexes. 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