Even under the individual rights theory of equal protection, reaffirmed in Adarand, 515 U.S. at ----, 115 S.Ct. 20 U.S.C.A. 71,413-71,423 (1979). It is not for the courts, or the legislature, for that matter, to mandate programs of a given size. Under the new standards established in those cases, Cohen II is flawed both because it applies a lenient version of intermediate scrutiny that is impermissible following Adarand and because it did not apply the exceedingly persuasive justification test of Virginia. (iv) Four new women's junior varsity teams-basketball, lacrosse, soccer, and tennis-will be university-funded. Id. 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. The district court noted that the four demoted teams were eligible for NCAA competition, provided that they were able to raise the funds necessary to maintain a sufficient level of competitiveness, and provided that they continued to comply with NCAA requirements. (We note that the text of the 1990 Investigator's Manual cited herein at page 25 was apparently at page 27 of the copy of the Manual before the district court.). at 2271, 2275; id. 1364, 1370-71, 113 L.Ed.2d 411 (1991)). Cohen v. Brown University. 39,261-62 (1971) (remarks of Rep. Quie); 117 Cong.Rec. In the spring of 1991, Brown announced that it, like many other schools, was in a financial bind, and that, as a belt-tightening measure, it planned to drop four sports from its . Because the challenged classification is gender-based, it must be analyzed under the intermediate scrutiny test. Based on an analysis of membership in varsity teams, the district court concluded that there existed a disparity between female participation in intercollegiate athletics and female student enrollment. Cohen II squarely rejected Brown's interpretation of the three-part test and carefully delineated its own, which is now the law of this circuit as well as the law of this case. Ryan v. Royal Ins. In Cohen v. California, 403 U.S. 15 (1971), the Supreme Court established that the government generally cannot criminalize the display of profane words in public places.. Cohen charged with beaching peace for wearing profane jacket. denied, 502 U.S. 862, 112 S.Ct. Subsequently, after hearing fourteen days of testimony, the district court granted plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction, ordering, inter alia, that the women's gymnastics and volleyball teams be reinstated to university-funded varsity status, and prohibiting Brown from eliminating or reducing the status or funding of any existing women's intercollegiate varsity team until the case was resolved on the merits. No aspect of the Title IX regime at issue in this case-inclusive of the statute, the relevant regulation, and the pertinent agency documents-mandates gender-based preferences or quotas, or specific timetables for implementing numerical goals. In Mora, the plaintiff began clocking into work via fingerprint scan in 2014. denied, 518 U.S. 1033, 116 S.Ct. As interpreted by the district court, the test constitutes an affirmative action, quota-based scheme. 706, 102 L.Ed.2d 854, the Court applied strict scrutiny in striking down a municipal minority set-aside program for city construction contracts. It is clearly in the best interest of both the male and the female athletes to have an increase in women's opportunities and a small decrease in men's opportunities, if necessary, rather than, as under Brown's plan, no increase in women's opportunities and a large decrease in men's opportunities. This is a class action lawsuit charging Brown University, its president, and its athletic director (collectively "Brown") with violating Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. 118 Cong.Rec. First, as explained earlier, Adarand and Croson apply to review of legislative affirmative action schemes. Rather, the Seventh Circuit endorsed the test as one for compliance, in dismissing the plaintiff's claims. The district court noted that there may be other women's club sports with sufficient interest and ability to warrant elevation to varsity status, but that plaintiffs did not introduce at trial substantial evidence demonstrating the existence of other women's club teams meeting the criteria. at 211, and that [a]lthough the number of varsity sports offered to men and women are equal, the selection of sports offered to each gender generates far more individual positions for male athletes than for female athletes, id. Title IX is an anti-discrimination statute, modeled after Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. 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. 106.1-106.71. And those characteristics are present here in spades. 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. Among the evidence submitted by Brown are: (i) admissions data showing greater athletic interest among male applicants than female applicants; (ii) college board data showing greater athletic interest and prior participation rates by prospective male applicants than female applicants; (iii) data from the Cooperative Institutional Research Program at UCLA indicating greater athletic interest among men than women; (iv) an independent telephone survey of 500 randomly selected Brown undergraduates that reveals that Brown offers women participation opportunities in excess of their representation in the pool of interested, qualified students; (v) intramural and club participation rates that demonstrate higher participation rates among men than women; (vi) walk-on and try-out numbers that reflect a greater interest among men than women; (vii) high school participation rates that show a much lower rate of participation among females than among males; (viii) the NCAA Gender Equity Committee data showing that women across the country participate in athletics at a lower rate than men. There can be no doubt that Title IX has changed the face of women's sports as well as our society's interest in and attitude toward women athletes and women's sports. at ----, 116 S.Ct. Cohen III, 879 F.Supp. Cohen II, 991 F.2d at 901 (finding no constitutional infirmity, assuming arguendo, that the regulation creates a classification somewhat in favor of women). 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. at 4-5, and concludes that if the Court determines that this plan is not sufficient to reach proportionality, phase two will be the elimination of one or more men's teams, id. Law School Case Brief; Cohen v. Brown Univ. If a school, like Brown, eschews the first two benchmarks of the accommodation test, electing to stray from substantial proportionality and failing to march uninterruptedly in the direction of equal athletic opportunity, it must comply with the third benchmark. (internal citations omitted). Ready, set, go. 2264, 2274-76, 135 L.Ed.2d 735 (1996) (applying Equal Protection review to gender-based government action where Commonwealth of Virginia attempted to maintain two purportedly equal single-sex institutions). Cohen II's assumption that a regulation slanted in favor of women would be permissible, Cohen II 991 F.2d at 901, and by implication that the same regulation would be impermissible if it favored men, was based on Metro Broadcasting, which held that benign race-based action by the federal government was subject to a lower standard than non-remedial race-based action. at 1196. A panel of this court affirmed the district court's decision granting a preliminary injunction to the plaintiffs. 118 Cong.Rec. The panel explained that, while evidence of a gender-based disparity in an institution's athletics program is relevant to a determination of noncompliance, a court assessing Title IX compliance may not find a violation solely because there is a disparity between the gender composition of an educational institution's student constituency, on the one hand, and its athletic programs, on the other hand. Id. As applied in the federal courts today, the law of the case doctrine more closely resembles the doctrine of stare decisis. See Linkletter v. Walker, 381 U.S. 618, 627, 85 S.Ct. at 1193-94. From a constitutional standpoint, the case before us is altogether different. Citizens for Equal Protection v. Bruning - Plaintiff alongside Citizens for Equal Protection and Nebraska Advocates for Justice Equality; Neither appellees nor the district court have demonstrated an exceedingly persuasive justification for the government action that the district court has directed in this case. 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. The district court ordered Brown to elevate and maintain women's gymnastics, women's water polo, women's skiing, and women's fencing to university-funded varsity status. Id. Early in the opinion, the majority approvingly cites to the statistical evaluations conducted in Cohen I, Cohen II, and Cohen III. Rather than conduct an inquiry into whether Title IX and its resulting interpretations are benign or remedial, and conscious of the fact that labels can be used to hide illegitimate notions of inferiority or simple politics just as easily in the context of gender as in the context of race, we should now follow Adarand's lead and subject all gender-conscious government action to the same inquiry.25. Brown University's main campus Credit: Kylie Cooper A group of students on women's athletic teams filed a motion against Brown in 2020 after the university demoted multiple women's varsity teams to club teams, according to a press release from the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island. 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. Cohen v. Brown Univ., 879 F.Supp. Brown's interpretation of full and effective accommodation is simply not the law. Cohen III, 879 F.Supp. 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. at 71,417.The 1990 version of the Title IX Athletics Investigator's Manual, an internal agency document, instructs investigating officials to consider, inter alia, the following: (i) any institutional surveys or assessments of students' athletics interests and abilities, see Valerie M. Bonnette & Lamar Daniel, Department of Education, Title IX Athletics Investigator's Manual at 22 (1990); (ii) the expressed interests of the underrepresented gender, id. 2997, 111 L.Ed.2d 445 (1990) (race); Califano v. Webster, 430 U.S. 313, 97 S.Ct. 1681(b). Title IX and its implementing regulations protect the class for whose special benefit the statute was enacted. at 460-61 (proving broad sociological propositions by statistics is a dubious business, and one that inevitably is in tension with the normative philosophy that underlies the Equal Protection Clause); Cannon, 441 U.S. at 681 n. 2, 99 S.Ct. The case is now before us on appeal from the merits and we must review it accordingly. 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