Supreme Court Turns Away Appeals From Schools in Title IX Cases. School boards can’t hide anymore. We hope they get it good.
The United States Supreme Court will not hear an appeal from a Virginia school board arguing that it should not be held liable under Title IX for an alleged sexual assault of a classmate by another classmate on a school trip.
On Monday, the court rejected the appeal from the Fairfax County School Board. The case will go to trial in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia.
According to the Associated Press, the case turned on whether a school system can be held liable under the civil rights legislation Title IX for a single alleged assault when there had been no notice of a problem.