Coaching Groups to Keep Up Fight Over Title IX
WASHINGTON
A coalition of college coaching associations, aiming to change the way a major sports anti-discrimination law is enforced, will press its legal fight on two fronts.
The College Sports Council announced plans last month to sue the U.S. Department of Education over its July decision to keep enforcing Title IX as it has for years. The council contends that federal policy forces schools to cut or cap men’s teams to keep women’s sports teams in proportion.
The council will also ask a federal appeals court to reverse the decision of a district court, which in June threw out a Title IX suit by the council and other groups. In that case, the judge ruled the groups had no standing to sue because they couldn’t show their concerns about men’s sports would be fixed even if they won, a point the coaches dispute.
