Overlawyered » Title IX http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:28:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Title IX for tots http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/title-ix-for-tots/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/title-ix-for-tots/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:07:28 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=26548 K-5 basketball in Pittsburgh must achieve gender equity or cease. [Eric McErlain, Daily Caller] Plus: A reading list on the Title IX myth [Deborah Elson/Saving Sports, scroll]

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  • Liability suits bankrupt manufacturer of gasoline cans [Tulsa World]
  • Faces life imprisonment: “Greece’s statistics chief faces criminal probe” for “not cooking the books” [FT via @OlafStorbeck]
  • Man injured by runaway car can sue county on grounds bus shelter was built too close to street [Seattle Times]
  • Title IX trips up track teams [Saving Sports: Delaware, West Virginia, Maryland]
  • “‘Not gay enough’ softball players settle suit” [SF Chron]
  • Now it’s the Obama administration that’s upset with ABA over ratings of judicial nominees [Whelan]
  • Lawyer kiosks in UK newsstands [Knake, LEF] Lawyers open kiosk at Florida mall [ABA Journal]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/december-12-roundup/feed/ 4     Booster clubs and bake sales http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/booster-clubs-and-bake-sales/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/booster-clubs-and-bake-sales/#comments Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:17:43 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25471 The anti-obesity campaign isn’t the only policy initiative that’s leading to regulatory scrutiny of high school bake sales. There’s Title IX and its state equivalents, too:

    Controversy in New Mexico continues over booster club funding and Title IX implementation as discussion heats up over the state’s Schools Athletics Equity Act. The issue remains whether private donations raised by parents through bake sales and working concession stands, or whether philanthropic contributions by private businesses, should be pooled together and distributed among all boys and girls teams under the guise of Title IX equality — and regardless of which parents/teams raised what.

    Not surprisingly, many expect volunteerism to droop if the chance to raising funds for your team’s road trip or new equipment is replaced by a new rule prescribing that you can only raise money for school sports generally and hope that some fraction gets passed through to your team. [Deborah Elson, Saving Sports; earlier on booster clubs]

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  • “Table Saw without ’saw stop’ technology defective: First Circuit” [George Conk, Ted Frank, earlier here, here]
  • Court OKs burned patron’s flaming-rum suit against Bacardi [Reuters]
  • Feds won’t pursue Title IX complaint against 60 Oregon school districts [Oregonian]
  • IRS putting the squeeze on small tax preparers [WaPo]
  • How the incinerator (and decades of bad decisions) bankrupted Harrisburg [Bond Girl]
  • “The most thoughtful, reasonable guy in the whole symposium” — aw [Greenfield on law licensing, earlier] P.S. And similarly from David Lat;
  • Adam Freedman and readers on Florida “wrongful birth” case [Ricochet, earlier]
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  • “Convicted King of Class Actions Builds Aviary, Regrets Nothing” [Lerach, Bloomberg profile]
  • Teva/Baxter suits: Latest Nevada you-made-the-vials-too-big propofol verdict makes no more sense than first [Glenn Lammi, Forbes; Ted at PoL]
  • EPA malicious prosecution in Hubert Vidrine case won’t be “isolated” unless we change our thinking [Ken at Popehat]
  • Title IX coordinator training: “How federal regulations are making college ‘risk management’ lawyers rich” [Robert Shibley, Daily Caller] A lawyer spots more problems with Department of Education regulations on campus sexual assault [Robert Smith, RCP]
  • Time to admit: on consequences of protecting big banks from capitalism, “Occupy” has a point [Nicole Gelinas, City Journal]
  • Lawsuits accuse Boeing of engine-air-in-cabin “fume events” [MSNBC]
  • About those “Topeka decriminalizes domestic violence” stories [Lowering the Bar]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/october-17-roundup-2/feed/ 4     High school booster clubs http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/high-school-booster-clubs/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/high-school-booster-clubs/#comments Sat, 17 Sep 2011 14:15:45 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=24653 The vise of Title IX regulation keeps tightening.

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/high-school-booster-clubs/feed/ 3     Le suit: climate of sexual harassment at Yale “emboldened” murderer http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/le-suit-climate-of-sexual-harassment-at-yale-emboldened-murderer/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/le-suit-climate-of-sexual-harassment-at-yale-emboldened-murderer/#comments Sat, 10 Sep 2011 14:59:05 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=24516 Citing a Title IX complaint, the lawsuit claims that the university’s failure to crack down harder on male behavior was in part responsible for the sensational crime in which a fellow lab worker strangled the pharmacology student and stuffed her body into a wall. [Yale Daily News, Slate "XX Factor" (despite feminist sympathies, doubting basis for suit), New York Daily News] More: Scott Greenfield, Max Kennerly.

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/le-suit-climate-of-sexual-harassment-at-yale-emboldened-murderer/feed/ 7     September 6 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/september-6-roundup/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/september-6-roundup/#comments Tue, 06 Sep 2011 05:09:46 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=24430
  • “For any value of x, ‘X’s Law’ is a bad idea.” [David Wagner on this Radley Balko post]
  • “Politicized hiring at DOJ” shoe is on the other foot now [Caroline May, Daily Caller; Hans Bader/CEI]
  • “THE FACTS: Nothing is unconstitutional until courts declare it to be so,” quoth AP. Whaaaa? [Taranto]
  • Pull back your town’s Section 8 program, get sued or investigated [James Bovard, WSJ]
  • New Jersey Turnpike Authority legal payouts include $150K in legal fees to ADA claimant [Press of Atlantic City]
  • NYT’s faux-criticism of Title IX enforcers: colleges aren’t cowed enough by them [Joshua Thompson, PLF Liberty Blog]
  • After silicosis-payout scandal, lawsuits aim at defrauded insurer among other parties [Brenda Sapino Jeffreys, Texas Lawyer, earlier]
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  • Reforms billed as loser-pays advance in Texas, but they’re very scaled-down [WSJ, WLF and more, Legal Blog Watch, Wood/PoL, Cary Gray/Houston Chronicle, WSJ Law Blog, earlier]
  • “Refutation of Toyota sudden acceleration hysteria doesn’t stop Toyota sudden acceleration litigation” [Ted at PoL]
  • “Five Questions With Legal Scholar Richard Epstein” [Jamie Weinstein, Daily Caller; his views on Title IX]
  • Employers glad for small favors: “Refusing to Hire Applicant Who Fails Drug Test Not an ADA Violation” [Robin Weideman, California Labor and Employment Law Blog; Ninth Circuit]
  • “Study Shows Litigation Doesn’t Improve Nursing Home Safety” [Studdert et al, NEJM via Daniel Fisher]
  • Risperdal? No thanks: “Mother battles Michigan over daughter’s medication” [AP]
  • Personal-injury litigation plummets in Australia following enactment of state-level reforms [seven years ago on Overlawyered]
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  • “You Will Be Relieved to Know it is Now Harder To Discipline Bad Cops in Arizona” [Coyote]
  • NYT runs Title IX “roster management” through a feminist echo chamber [Heather Mac Donald, Secular Right] Even with the slant, colleges’ willingness to contort their programs to comply with quotas tends to prove critics’ case [Althouse, Wendy Parker, College Sports Council, more]
  • “AT&T v. Concepcion: ‘Consumers Win in Allegedly Anti-Consumer Supreme Court Ruling’” [PoL] Will Elizabeth Warren partly undo the outcome? [Fisher/Forbes] More on case: Trask, Karlsgodt;
  • “[Entertainer] Prince Wants Laws Changed To Eliminate Song Covers” [Hollywood, Esq./THR]
  • Consulting firm accused of racketeering in Chevron suit has U.S. gulf spill contract [ShopFloor]
  • Point out flaws in DoJ’s legal case against you, and get branded “uncooperative” [Koehler/FCPA Professor]
  • NYC might ban buying fake handbags [WSJ Law Blog] Bill sponsor’s curious political trajectory to city council [Rick Brookhiser, many years back in City Journal]
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