Complaints to the University of Texas at Austin’s Title IX office increased by 300+ in the last academic year, according to a report released by the school. The report details incidents of sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating violence and stalking that UT employees witnessed or received...

Students have passed a resolution condemning the University of Michigan’s response to sexual assault allegations against late athletic physician Robert Anderson and calling for prompt termination of University President Mark Schlissel, as well as members of the athletic staff and Title IX...

Students at Loyola University Chicago have started to speak out about how the school handles reports of campus sexual misconduct. Many students feel that the school’s Title IX office has not taken adequate action to investigate sexual assault claims, saying the office takes too long to...

Grant & Eisenhofer will be hosting a Lunch & Learn webinar at 12:30 p.m. EST on Wednesday, November 17, 2021. The topic will be “Gender Discrimination in Higher Education: Litigating Title IX Cases Against Universities.” Moderated by G&E’s Elizabeth Graham, featured panelists...

As sexual abuse cases continue to be filed against colleges and universities nationwide, some schools have finally begun to enact policy changes surrounding Title IX and sexual misconduct. Elon University has updated its student handbook to reflect the new Title IX policies enacted in August...

Louisiana state lawmakers have expressed concerns over Louisiana State University’s (“LSU”) Title IX office, including concerns over staffing and glitches in the LSU website for reporting cases of sexual assault and violence, which is also supposed to provide online resources meant to help...

Hundreds of Virginia Tech students gathered on campus last month to protest the university’s Title IX policies and practices. The protest was organized by a student activist group called United Feminist Movement, who argued that the university’s response to complaints of sexual assault and...

In a landmark settlement with San Jose State University (SJSU), the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California recently announced a $1.6 million agreement to resolve years of Title IX violations at the school. The...

A former Boston Ballet principal dancer and her husband are accused of rape in a sexual abuse lawsuit filed in Nevada federal court. According to the lawsuit, the plaintiffs, who join five other Boston Ballet dancers with similar allegations, experienced numerous instances of sexual...

An Indiana priest has been accused of sexually abusing two people, including a minor. The priest served as pastor at the St. Paul of the Cross Catholic Church, as well as chaplain at Bishop Dwenger High School. Since the allegations surfaced in mid-September 2021, he has resigned from both...

Dirty Linen: How Women Sued the Reader's Digest and Changed History, by Elaine Auerbach Dirty Linen is an everywoman manifesto and a gentle tutorial on fundamental civil rights activism by the working mom next door. Set in Westchester County, New York in the 1970’s, Reader’s Digest was, at...

The Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”) has been around for decades, but one of the consequences of the #MeToo movement has been a widespread recognition that allowing employers to force survivors of sexual assault and harassment into arbitration is a real problem. Not only do arbitration...