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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-209 | Elizabeth Spokoiny v. University of Washington Medical Center | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-21 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split collective-bargaining employment-discrimination fmla title-ix title-vii | Whether federal courts of appeal are divided on standards for sexual harassment, disability discrimination, and collective bargaining agreement interp… |
| 25-183 | Thomas Crowther, et al. v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-08-15 | Pending | CVSGRelisted (3) | educational-institutions employment-discrimination federal-funding private-right-action sex-discrimination title-ix | Whether Title IX provides employees of federally funded educational institutions a private right of action to sue for sex discrimination in employment |
| 25A5 | Thomas Crowther v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-07-01 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split employment-law implied-right-of-action sex-discrimination statutory-interpretation title-ix | Whether Title IX provides an implied private right of action for employees to sue for sex discrimination in educational institutions | |
| 24-1087 | David B. Porter v. F. Tyler Sergent, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-04-17 | Denied | Response Waived | disciplinary-hearing due-process federal-funding procedural-fairness state-action title-ix | May a private college which receives federal funding always rely upon a 'no state action' defense in denying its employee due process or procedural fa… |
| 24-746 | John Doe v. University of Iowa, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-01-14 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | cross-examination due-process mixed-motive procedural-fairness sex-discrimination title-ix | Whether Title VII's mixed-motive analysis applies to Title IX claims when a decision-maker explicitly admits to using 'sex' as a factor in determining… |
| 24-5511 | Jane Doe v. The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York | Second Circuit | 2024-09-11 | Denied | IFP | contract-law deliberate-indifference federal-funding pro-se-representation sexual-harassment title-ix | Does fraudulent tailoring of sexual assault case outcomes and failure to protect student privacy constitute deliberate indifference under Title IX? |
| 24-5244 | Justin G. Reedy v. California Department of Social Services, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-hearing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment goldberg-v-kelly mathews-v-eldridge public-benefits state-regulation substantive-due-process title-ix | Whether the principles of due process prohibit the Ninth Circuit Court's consideration of a new argument raised by the State Defendants' on appeal tha… |
| 24-88 | John Doe v. The Trustees of Indiana University, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-07-29 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion pseudonym retaliation standing summary-judgment title-ix | Whether a district court abuses its discretion when, without a finding of risk of physical harm, improper retaliation, or minor status, it permits a p… |
| 24A79 | Miguel Cardona, Secretary of Education, et al. v. Tennessee, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2024-07-22 | Presumed Complete | Amici (2) | administrative-law education-department gender-identity sex-discrimination title-ix transgender-rights | Whether the Department of Education's Title IX rule implementing protections for transgender students exceeds its statutory authority or violates cons… |
| 24A78 | Department of Education, et al. v. Louisiana, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-22 | Presumed Complete | Amici (2) | administrative-law education-department gender-identity sex-discrimination title-ix transgender-rights | Whether Title IX regulations implementing protections for transgender students in educational settings exceed the Department of Education's statutory … |
| 24-44 | West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission v. B. P. J., By Her Next Friend and Mother, Heather Jackson, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-16 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | brentwood-academy-v-tennessee-ssaa entwinement-test federal-funding legal-duties peltier-v-charter-day-school private-organization smith-v-ncaa state-actor state-actor-doctrine title-ix | What are the indicia of 'state actor'? And do they include action, entwinement and controlling authority? |
| 24-43 | West Virginia, et al. v. B. P. J., By Her Next Friend and Mother, Heather Jackson | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-16 | Granted | Amici (46)Response WaivedRelisted (3) | biological-sex civil-rights equal-protection gender-identity sex-discrimination sports-participation sports-teams title-ix | Whether Title IX prevents a state from consistently designating girls' and boys' sports teams based on biological sex determined at birth |
| 23-1115 | Melissa Ing v. Tufts University | First Circuit | 2024-04-15 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights employment-discrimination false-statements gender-discrimination retaliation sexual-harassment title-ix whistleblowing | Whether the lower court relied on demonstrably false information, submitted by Tufts University to reject Dr. Melissa Ing's retaliation and gender dis… |
| 23A728 | John Doe v. University of Iowa, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-02-06 | Presumed Complete | mixed-motives procedural-due-process section-1983 sex-discrimination summary-judgment title-ix | Whether a university's sexual misconduct proceeding can constitute sex discrimination under Title IX when mixed motives are present and procedural due… | |
| 23-812 | Arizona, et al. v. Mackenzie Brown | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process educational-institution off-campus-conduct party-presentation-principle student-discipline student-harassment substantial-control title-ix | Whether a university's authority to discipline students for misconduct taking place off of the university campus constitutes 'substantial control' ove… |
| 23A553 | Arizona, et al. v. Mackenzie Brown | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-15 | Presumed Complete | disciplinary-authority educational-institution off-campus student-harassment substantial-control title-ix | Whether an educational institution can be held liable under Title IX for student-on-student harassment that occurs off-campus when the institution ret… | |
| 23-509 | John Doe v. Rollins College | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split doe-v-purdue procedural-deficiencies sex-discrimination summary-judgment title-ix | Whether the proper test for sex discrimination under Title IX should be the test stated in Doe v. Purdue |
| 23-464 | Matthew Boermeester v. Ainsley Carry, et al. | California | 2023-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | confrontation cross-examination due-process educational-discipline fair-process student-rights title-ix witness-credibility | Whether when an educational institution that is a recipient of Federal funds seeks to impose a lengthy suspension or expulsion on a student for allege… |
| 23-392 | Metropolitan School District of Martinsville v. A. C., a Minor Child by His Next Friend, Mother and Legal Guardian, M. C. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-10-13 | Denied | Amici (6)Relisted (2) | bathroom-access bathroom-policy biological-sex circuit-split civil-rights equal-protection equal-protection-clause school-district sex-segregation student-rights title-ix | Whether Title IX or the Equal Protection Clause prohibit schools from maintaining separate bathrooms on the basis of students' biological sex |
| 23-5650 | Lijo Panghat v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process national-security public-interest rule-of-law standing title-ix whistleblower-protection | Whether the illegal denial of 'Due Process' to Petitioner and the harm being persistently inflicted upon him, violates the rights promised by the U.S.… |
| 23-332 | Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District v. Jane Roe | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-29 | Denied | article-iii-standing civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process peer-harassment school-liability standing summary-judgment title-ix | Whether and to what extent a Title IX plaintiff must prove that a school's deliberate indifference to known peer harassment caused them to undergo fur… | |
| 23A176 | Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District v. Jane Roe | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-25 | Presumed Complete | article-iii-standing davis-standard deliberate-indifference school-district-liability student-sexual-harassment title-ix | Whether a school district may be held liable under Title IX for student-on-student sexual harassment based solely on a school official's alleged indif… | |
| 22-1002 | Austin Van Overdam v. Texas A&M University, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-14 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | cross-examination due-process pleading-standard sex-discrimination sexual-assault title-ix | Does constitutional due process require that students accused of sexual assault be permitted the opportunity for attorney-led cross-examination of the… |
| 22-897 | The Ohio State University v. Edward Gonzales, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-03-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | administrative-law civil-rights due-process education-amendments education-law injury-accrual standing statute-of-limitations title-ix university-liability | Whether, or to what extent, a Title-IX-claim accrues after the date of alleged-injury |
| 22-896 | The Ohio State University v. Steve Snyder-Hill, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-03-16 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights discovery-rule educational-programs federal-financial-assistance private-right-of-action sex-discrimination standing statute-of-limitations title-ix | Whether the statute of limitations for a Title IX claim accrues at the time of the alleged injury or under a discovery rule |
| 22-590 | Sergio Verdu v. Trustees of Princeton University, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-12-27 | Denied | Response Waived | federal-courts rule-of-law supervisory-authority third-circuit title-ix title-vii | whether-courts-should-issue-not-precedential-opinions |
| 22-6282 | Ileen Cain v. Mercy College, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights cybercrime department-of-education due-process free-speech higher-education sexual-assault title-ix vawa-reauthorization violence-against-women | Whether the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act 2022 Sec 1401 1309 and the Department of Education clause that mandate institutions of higher e… |
| 22-423 | Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, dba Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools v. John Doe, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2022-11-07 | Denied | Response Waived | actionable-harassment actual-knowledge civil-rights deliberate-indifference peer-harassment peer-on-peer-harassment school-district-liability school-liability title-ix | In a peer-on-peer harassment Title IX claim, under what circumstances can a school district be liable when a plaintiff relies on the harassment of oth… |
| 22-123 | University of Toledo v. Jaycee Wamer | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-09 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (3) | circuit-split civil-rights due-process educational-law liability notice school-liability sexual-harassment title-ix | Can schools be liable under Title IX for sexual harassment that ceased before they were notified? |
| 22-93 | Michigan State University, et al. v. Sophia Balow, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-01 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | athletic-opportunities circuit-split education-amendments-1972 educational-discrimination equal-athletic-opportunity federal-financial-assistance gender-equity proportionality-test sex-discrimination substantial-proportionality title-ix | Whether, in determining compliance with Title IX and the substantial proportionality rule, the athletic participation gap between male and female stud… |
| 21-1506 | Christine M. Owen v. Liberty University, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2022-06-01 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-funding institutional-accountability public-private title-ix | Whether students at private colleges and universities are entitled to the same contractual, due-process, constitutional-rights, title-ix, equal-protec… |
| 21-7208 | Theresa Bailey v. New York Law School, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process indigent-plaintiff judicial-review pro-bono-counsel procedural-errors standing title-ix | Whether the underlying case presents one or more Questions of Fact for a jury; and, if no, Whether the case presents one or more cognizable claims tha… |
| 21-1046 | Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences v. New York University | Second Circuit | 2022-01-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights discrimination legal-review membership-selection race sex standing title-ix title-vi | Should the Court summarily reverse the court of appeals' holding that FASORP failed to allege standing in its amended complaint? |
| 21-968 | Fairfax County School Board v. Jane Doe | Fourth Circuit | 2022-01-06 | Denied | CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (4) | actual-knowledge civil-rights damages deliberate-indifference due-process funding-recipient spending-clause student-harassment title-ix | Whether a funding recipient may be liable in damages in a private action under Davis when the recipient's response did not itself cause any harassment… |
| 21-907 | Kenda R. Kirby v. North Carolina | Fourth Circuit | 2021-12-21 | Denied | civil-rights discrimination due-process educational-amendments non-discrimination retaliation sex-based-characteristics sex-discrimination title-ix | Whether Plaintiff has a right to redress under Title IX or other policies and statutes | |
| 21-656 | John Oirya v. Brigham Young University | Tenth Circuit | 2021-11-08 | Denied | 10th-circuit administrative-discretion due-process gender-bias judicial-review school-discipline student-rights substantial-evidence summary-judgment title-ix | Should federal courts review school disciplinary decisions for substantial evidence of guilt? | |
| 21-84 | Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, et al. v. Victim Rights Law Center, et al. | First Circuit | 2021-07-21 | Denied | Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | adequate-representation circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure government-litigation governmental-litigant intervention intervention-as-of-right presumption-of-adequacy presumption-of-adequate-representation standing title-ix | Whether a movant who seeks to intervene as of right on the same side as a governmental litigant must overcome a presumption of adequate representation |
| 20-1769 | Cheryl Fritze v. Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. | Sixth Circuit | 2021-06-21 | Denied | civil-rights education off-campus off-campus-internship public-body sexual-harassment student-intern title-ix whistle-blower | Whether Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 affords a student intern the same legal protection against sexual harassment during an off ca… | |
| 20-1715 | Denise Taylor-Travis v. Jackson State University | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-11 | Denied | Response Waived | causation causation-standard civil-rights due-process jury-instructions privacy-rights public-records-act retaliation title-ix | Whether the jury instruction on the causation standard for a Title IX retaliation claim was erroneous |
| 20-1163 | Gloucester County School Board v. Gavin Grimm | Fourth Circuit | 2021-02-24 | Denied | Amici (3) | biological-sex civil-rights equal-protection equal-protection-clause gender-identity restrooms school-discrimination title-ix transgender transgender-rights | Does Title IX or the Equal Protection Clause require schools to let transgender students use multiuser restrooms designated for the opposite biologica… |
| 20-1128 | Ralph Clay Walsh, Jr. v. Lisa Hodge, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-17 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law cross-examination due-process qualified-immunity title-ix | Does the mere presence of a circuit split necessarily foreclose a finding that the law is 'clearly established' for qualified immunity purposes? |
| 20-1083 | Thomas Rossley, Jr. v. Drake University, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-02-08 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-rights college disability-discrimination disciplinary-proceedings due-process reasonable-accommodations title-ix university university-disciplinary-proceedings | Does the conflict in fact among the Circuits involving Title IX discrimination in college and university disciplinary decisions present important fede… |
| 20-654 | Anthony John Ripa v. Stony Brook University | Second Circuit | 2020-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights denied-benefit educational-amendments educational-amendments-1972 gender-advocacy sex-discrimination standing statutory-interpretation student-benefits title-ix | Whether discrimination for a student because of sex constitutes a 'denied ... benefit' to the other sex within the meaning of Title IX of the Educatio… |
| 20-494 | The Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College v. Stephen M. Gruver, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-15 | Denied | Response Waived | article-i-spending-power article-one-powers civil-damages civil-rights-remedies-equalization-act eleventh-amendment federal-funds sovereign-immunity spending-power title-ix | Can Congress, in the exercise of Article I Spending Power, unilaterally expand federal judicial power for private civil damages actions asserted again… |
| 20-216 | Prianka Bose v. Roberto de la Salud Bea, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2020-08-25 | Denied | Amici (1) | academic-misconduct civil-rights due-process education educational-opportunity false-accusation gender-bias retaliation sex-discrimination title-ix | Whether a school that expels a student based on charges and evidence motivated by sex bias denies that student educational opportunities 'on the basis… |
| 20-62 | Parents for Privacy, et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-23 | Denied | bodily-privacy civil-rights due-process free-exercise parental-rights religious-beliefs religious-freedom school-policy title-ix transgender-accommodation | whether-parents-surrender-fundamental-right-to-direct-upbringing-of-children | |
| 20-10 | Emily Kollaritsch, et al. v. Michigan State University Board of Trustees, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2020-07-10 | Denied | Amici (2) | circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process federal-funding sexual-harassment student-harassment student-liability title-ix | Whether Davis's 'vulnerability' prong requires plaintiffs to prove additional, post-notice sexual harassment to state a claim for damages under Title … |
| 19-8174 | Camille T. Mata v. Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination | Massachusetts | 2020-04-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-rights-act due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination race-discrimination race-gender-discrimination superintendent-authority title-ix title-vi | Should senior legal officers be allowed to deny further appellate review when there is constitutional ground to grant it? |
| 19-927 | Wayne M. Klocke, Independent Administrator of the Estate of Thomas Klocke v. The University of Texas at Arlington | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-24 | Denied | Response Waived | burden-of-proof circuit-split disciplinary-action educational-programming gender-discrimination title-ix university-discipline university-liability | Whether the Fifth Circuit incorrectly implemented Title IX by imposing a burden on the plaintiff to prove the exclusion from educational programming w… |
| 19-509 | Jane Doe v. Dardanelle School District | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights damages-liability deliberate-indifference due-process educational-discrimination educational-opportunities federal-funding sexual-harassment student-harassment student-on-student-harassment title-ix | Whether a recipient of federal funding may be held liable where it takes any action in response to complaints of sexual harassment |
| 19-274 | Teresa Buchanan v. F. King Alexander, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-30 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | academic-freedom constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth public-university sexual-harassment tenure title-ix vagueness | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by foreclosing Petitioner's ability to challenge the constitutional validity of a public university's speech regulatio… |
| 19-166 | Matthew J. Rosenwasser v. Fordham University, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-08-05 | Denied | Relisted (2) | civil-rights due-process federal-funding statute-of-limitations title-ix university university-liability | Whether a federally-funded university's consistent, deliberate, and intentional denial of a Title IX investigation tolls the statute of limitations fo… |
| 18-1463 | Melissa Maher v. Iowa State University | Eighth Circuit | 2019-05-24 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process harassment post-traumatic-stress retaliation sexual-assault student-housing title-ix | Does discrimination making a student vulnerable to harassment after a sexual assault create a cause of action for deliberate indifference by the insti… |
| 18-1411 | Jeffrey Isaacs v. Trustees of Dartmouth College, et al. | First Circuit | 2019-05-09 | Denied | Response Waived | abuse-of-discretion administrative-law due-process evidence evidence-spoliation medical-license medical-licensing protected-conduct rehabilitation-act retaliation section-1983 title-ix | Whether the NH District Court abused its discretion in dismissing a Rehabilitation Act retaliation claim, failing to hold Dartmouth accountable for de… |
| 18-8438 | Abdul Cole v. Virginia | Virginia | 2019-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment jurisdictional-standards procedural-due-process reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure sexual-harassment strip-search title-ix university-liability | Whether the strip search and visual body cavity search of Mr. Cole violated the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizu… |
| 18-658 | Joel Doe, et al. v. Boyertown Area School District, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Amici (11)Relisted (11) | civil-rights constitutional-privacy due-process gender-identity privacy privacy-interest school-policy sex-discrimination title-ix transgender transgender-rights | Whether a public school has a compelling interest in authorizing students who believe themselves to be members of the opposite sex to use locker rooms… |
| 18-6200 | Emmanuel Chukwuebuka Uzoechi v. David Wilson, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure discrimination due-process emotional-distress false-conviction intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress malicious-prosecution title-ix | Did the State of Maryland intentionally inflict emotional distress on Emmanuel C Uzoechi, and was Emmanuel C Uzoechi Maliciously prosecuted? |
| 18-305 | Kenda Kirby v. Office of the Attorney General of North Carolina | Fourth Circuit | 2018-09-11 | Denied | ada civil-rights due-process educational-amendments eleventh-amendment equal-protection first-amendment retaliation sex-based-characteristics sex-discrimination standing title-ix | Whether plaintiff has a right to redress discrimination and retaliation under Title IX or other policies and statutes |