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This action was taken to ensure that the Order was final for purposes of this court's jurisdiction, and to expedite the appeal process. In reviewing equal protection challenges to such plans, the Court is concerned that government bodies are reaching out to implement race- or gender-conscious remedial measures that are ageless in their reach into the past, and timeless in their ability to affect the future, Wygant, 476 U.S. at 276, 106 S.Ct. at 3338 (In limited circumstances, a gender-based classification favoring one sex can be justified if it intentionally and directly assists members of the sex that is disproportionately burdened.). See Adarand, 515 U.S. 200, 115 S.Ct. He was elected in 2014 as a Judge of the Civil Court, NY County, and has also served, by designation . A Board determination whether a claim is well grounded is a conclusion of law subject to de novo review by the Court under 38 U.S.C. Brown maintains that the district court's decision imposes upon universities the obligation to engage in preferential treatment for women by requiring quotas in excess of women's relative interests and abilities. E.g., Hogan, 458 U.S. at 724, 102 S.Ct. at 3-4. 106.41(b) (1995) ([A] recipient may operate or sponsor separate teams for members of each sex where selection for such teams is based upon competitive skill or the activity involved is a contact sport.) (emphasis added). Synopsis of Rule of Law. at 1848, on the basis of facts insufficient to support a prima facie case of a constitutional or statutory violation, Croson, 488 U.S. at 500, 109 S.Ct. See, e.g., Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Bd. It does not follow from the fact that 1681(b) was patterned after a Title VII provision that Title VII standards should be applied to a Title IX analysis of whether an intercollegiate athletics program equally accommodates both genders, as Brown contends. While this court has approved the importation of Title VII standards into Title IX analysis, we have explicitly limited the crossover to the employment context. 65, 74 L.Ed.2d 66 (1982). at 194-95 n. 23. at 188 n. 4. at 3026 (emphasis added). It is obvious that Brown's plan was addressed to this court, rather than to offering a workable solution to a difficult problem. 2755, 2762-63, 49 L.Ed.2d 651 (1976). 2003) on CaseMine. The court's remedial order required Brown to elevate and maintain at university-funded varsity status the women's gymnastics, fencing, skiing, and water polo teams. See Cohen II, 991 F.2d at 893. Pub.L. Id. 18. 1682. The Metro Broadcasting Court distinguished Croson, noting that [i]n fact, much of the language and reasoning in Croson reaffirmed the lesson of Fullilove18 that race-conscious classifications adopted by Congress to address racial and ethnic discrimination are subject to a different standard than such classifications prescribed by state and local governments. Metro Broadcasting, 497 U.S. at 565, 110 S.Ct. 1 On January 17, 2021, the Amendment to the Joint Agreement was appealed by Plaintiff Class Member Objectors. In its liability analysis, the district court expressly accepted Cohen II' s elucidation of the applicable law, Cohen III, 879 F.Supp. Why we love our games, U.S. News & World Report, July 15, 1996, at 33-34 (attributing to Title IX the explosive growth of women's participation in sports and the debunking of the traditional myth that women aren't interested in sports). See Cannon, 441 U.S. at 694, 99 S.Ct. at 460-61 (proving broad sociological propositions by statistics is a dubious business, and one that inevitably is in tension with the normative philosophy that underlies the Equal Protection Clause); Cannon, 441 U.S. at 681 n. 2, 99 S.Ct. Consistent with the school desegregation cases, the question of substantial proportionality under the Policy Interpretation's three-part test is merely the starting point for analysis, rather than the conclusion; a rebuttable presumption, rather than an inflexible requirement. ("Title IX"). It is also well established that an agency's construction of its own regulations is entitled to substantial deference. Martin v. Occupational Safety and Health Review Comm'n, 499 U.S. 144, 150, 111 S.Ct. 938, 130 L.Ed.2d 883 (1995); Favia v. Indiana Univ. U.S. District Court Senior . 39,261-62 (1971) (remarks of Rep. Quie); 117 Cong.Rec. 11. 1996) Rule: Title IX of the Education Code, 20 U.S.C.S. 71,413, 71,414. for Women v. Hogan, 458 U.S. 718, 723-24, and n. 9, 102 S.Ct. Further, inappropriately relying on Frontiero, 411 U.S. 677, 93 S.Ct. In Cohen II, a panel of this court squarely rejected Brown's constitutional and statutory challenges to the Policy Interpretation's three-part test, upholding the district court's interpretation of the Title IX framework applicable to intercollegiate athletics, Cohen II, 991 F.2d at 899-902, as well as its grant of a preliminary injunction in favor of the plaintiffs, id. Id. A university does not treat its men's and women's teams equally if it allows the coaches of men's teams to set their own maximum capacity limits but overrides the judgment of coaches of women's teams on the same matter. 595, 598-99 (1987) (footnotes omitted), and has been said to lie half way between stare decisis and res judicata, 1B Moore at 0.404[1] n. 3 (internal quotation marks and citation omitted). 706, 102 L.Ed.2d 854 (1989) (striking down a municipal set-aside program requiring that 30% of the city's construction dollars be paid to racial minority subcontractors on an annual basis); Johnson v. Transportation Agency, 480 U.S. 616, 107 S.Ct. At any rate, Kelley pre-dates the Supreme Court's opinions in Adarand and Virginia, meaning that it suffers from the same defects as Cohen II. Cohen III, 879 F.Supp. ; see also United States v. Reveron Martinez, 836 F.2d 684, 687 n. 2 (1st Cir.1988) (To be sure, there may be occasions when courts can-and should-loosen the iron grip of stare decisis. As a consequence of these demotions, all four teams lost, not only their university funding, but most of the support and privileges that accompany university-funded varsity status at Brown. Cohen v. Brown University, Court Case No. As noted previously, Croson is an affirmative action case and does not control review of a judicial determination that a federal anti-discrimination statute has been violated. I believe that we face such a situation in the instant case. The district court found that Brown predetermines the approximate number of varsity positions available to men and women, and, thus, that the concept of any measure of unfilled but available athletic slots does not comport with reality. Cohen III, 879 F.Supp. In 1993-94, then, Brown's varsity program-including both university- and donor-funded sports-afforded over 200 more positions for men than for women. Under Cohen II's controlling interpretation, prong three demands not merely some accommodation, but full and effective accommodation. 1681-1688 (Title IX), and its implementing regulations, 34 C.F.R. at 71,418, in which case the compliance inquiry ends without reaching prong three. Cohen III, 879 F.Supp. Cohen II, 991 F.2d at 902 (a party losing the battle on likelihood of success may nonetheless win the war at a succeeding trial). at 895. In response, appellees cite Kelley v. Board of Trustees, 35 F.3d 265 271 (1994), for the proposition that the three-prong test does not constitute a quota, because it does not require any educational institution to grant preferential or disparate treatment to the gender underrepresented in that institution's athletic program. Cohen v. Brown University 1st Circuit Court of Appeals 991 F.2d 888 (1st Cir. In other words. 16. However, where a recipient operates or sponsors a team in a particular sport for members of one sex but operates or sponsors no such team for members of the other sex, and athletic opportunities for members of that sex have previously been limited, members of the excluded sex must be allowed to try-out for the team offered unless the sport involved is a contact sport. This extreme action is entirely unnecessary. Brown contends that the district court misconstrued and misapplied the three-part test. Although the statute itself provides for no remedies beyond the termination of federal funding, the Supreme Court has determined that Title IX is enforceable through an implied private right of action, Cannon, 441 U.S. at 703, 99 S.Ct. When an appeal comes to us in that posture, the appellate court's conclusions as to the merits of the issues presented on preliminary injunction are to be understood as statements of probable outcomes, rather than as comprising the ultimate law of the case. A.M. Capen's Co. v. American Trading and Prod. at 192. See Cohen v. Brown Univ., 809 F. Supp. Surely this is a far cry from a one-step imposition of a gender-based quota. Brown operates a two-tiered intercollegiate athletics program with respect to funding: although Brown provides the financial resources required to maintain its university-funded varsity teams, donor-funded varsity athletes must themselves raise the funds necessary to support their teams through private donations. To do so, the University must disregard the expressed athletic interests of one gender while providing advantages for others. at 898. We find no error in the district court's definition and calculation of the intercollegiate athletics participation opportunities afforded to Brown students, and no error in the court's finding of a 13.01% disparity between the percentage of women participating in intercollegiate varsity athletics at Brown and the percentage of women in Brown's undergraduate student body. Expanding women's athletic opportunities in areas where there is proven ability and interest is the very purpose of Title IX and the simplest, least disruptive, route to Title IX compliance at Brown. at ----, 116 S.Ct. See Adarand, 515 U.S. at ----, 115 S.Ct. 2758, 65 L.Ed.2d 902 (1980) (upholding a federal program requiring state and local recipients of federal public works grants to set aside 10% of funds for procuring goods and services from minority business enterprises); United Steelworkers v. Weber, 443 U.S. 193, 99 S.Ct. for Women v. Hogan, 458 U.S. 718, 725, 102 S.Ct. 1225, 1228 n. 2, 43 L.Ed.2d 514 (1975). To accomplish these objectives, Congress directed all agencies extending financial assistance to educational institutions to develop procedures for terminating financial assistance to institutions that violate Title IX. After all, the district court itself stated that one of the compliance options available to Brown under Title IX is to demote or eliminate the requisite number of men's positions. Cohen III, 879 F.Supp. Even a single person with a reasonable unmet interest defeats compliance. 71,413-71,423 (1979). Although the protections of the First Amendment cannot be used to justify discrimination, this court should not forget that it has a duty to protect a private institution's right to mould its own educational environment. . Reasoning that [w]here both the athlete and coach determine that there is a place on the team for a student, it is not for this Court to second-guess their judgment and impose its own, or anyone else's, definition of a valuable or genuine varsity experience, the district court concluded that [e]very varsity team member is therefore a varsity participant. Id. The logic of this position escapes me. 5804 (1972) (remarks of Sen. Bayh); North Haven Bd. In its discussion, the Court stated that, in order to prevail in a gender case, the State must show at least that the challenged classification serves important governmental objectives and that the discriminatory means employed are substantially related to the achievement of those objectives. Id. Cohen v. Brown Univ., 809 F.Supp. 21. For simplicity, we treat DED as the promulgating agency. Id. Brown concedes that Adarand does not, in partially overruling Metro Broadcasting, set forth the proper standard of review for this case. Appellant's Br. 30,407 (1971) (same)). In Adarand, the Supreme Court held that all racial classifications must be analyzed under strict scrutiny. Adarand, 515 U.S. at ----, 115 S.Ct. Brown simply ignores the fact that it is required to accommodate fully the interests and abilities of the underrepresented gender, not because the three-part test mandates preferential treatment for women ab initio, but because Brown has been found (under prong one) to have allocated its athletics participation opportunities so as to create a significant gender-based disparity with respect to these opportunities, and has failed (under prong two) to show a history and continuing practice of expansion of opportunities for the underrepresented gender. at 1956. Second, Adarand does not even discuss gender discrimination, and its holding is limited to explicitly race-based classifications. Brown, who previously served in the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice, brings to his role extensive experience leading complex litigation, particularly Brown violated Title IX in 2020 when it eliminated 11 sports 37%. Plaintiff Description: The plaintiff class comprises all present, future, and potential Brown University women students who participate, seek to participate, and/or are deterred from participating in . 106.41 (1995), provides: (a)General. No. 44 Fed.Reg. The email address cannot be subscribed. The plan focuses only on University-funded sports, ignoring the long history of successful donor-funded student teams. 8. In United States v. Virginia, 518 U.S. 515, 116 S.Ct. Id. 5. Co. of Am., 916 F.2d 731, 734 (1st Cir.1990) (It is settled in this circuit that issues adverted to on appeal in a perfunctory manner, unaccompanied by some developed argumentation, are deemed to have been abandoned.) (citations omitted). If there is sufficient interest and ability among members of the statistically underrepresented gender, not slaked by existing programs, an institution necessarily fails this prong of the test. Id. Although the Court in two places asks whether the State has demonstrated that the classification serves important governmental objectives and that the discriminatory means employed are substantially related to the achievement of those objectives the Court never answers the question presented in anything resembling that form. Id. at 1064 n. 16; Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld, 420 U.S. 636, 638 n. 2, 95 S.Ct. 2000d (Title VI).8 See Cannon, 441 U.S. at 696, 99 S.Ct. As previously noted, the district court held that, for purposes of the three-part test, the intercollegiate athletics participation opportunities offered by an institution are properly measured by counting the number of actual participants on intercollegiate teams. District Court Order at 6 (footnote omitted). In Adarand, the Supreme Court reasoned that it may not always be clear that a so-called preference is in fact benign. Id. Cf. The panel also noted that, in spite of the scant legislative history regarding Title IX as it applies to athletics, Congress heard a great deal of testimony regarding discrimination against women in higher education and acted to reverse the Supreme Court's decision in Grove City College v. Bell, 465 U.S. 555, 573-74, 104 S.Ct. Prong three of the three-prong test states that, where an institution does not comply with prongs one or two, compliance will be assessed on the basis of. at 192. As the Kelley Court pointed out (in the context of analyzing the deference due the relevant athletics regulation and the Policy Interpretation): Undoubtedly the agency responsible for enforcement of the statute could have required schools to sponsor a women's program for every men's program offered and vice versa It was not unreasonable, however, for the agency to reject this course of action. Brown is no longer an appellant seeking a favorable result in the Court of Appeals. at 314-16, 97 S.Ct. Brown's decision to demote the women's volleyball and gymnastics teams and the men's water polo and golf teams from university-funded varsity status was apparently made in response to a university-wide cost-cutting directive. As a private institution that receives federal financial assistance, Brown is required to comply with Title IX. This suit was initiated in response to the demotion in May 1991 of Brown's women's gymnastics and volleyball teams from university-funded varsity status to donor-funded varsity status. While the Policy Interpretation covers other areas, this litigation focuses on the Effective Accommodation section, which interprets 34 C.F.R. 71,418, are not manifestly contrary to the objectives of Title IX, and Congress has specifically delegated to an agency the responsibility to articulate standards governing a particular area, we must accord the ensuing regulation considerable deference. This motion was filed by the original plaintiffs of Cohen v. 92-2483. of Educ. 398. Brown's efforts to circumvent the controlling effect of Cohen II are unavailing, however, because, under the law of the case doctrine, we are bound in this appeal, as was the district court on remand, by the prior panel's rulings of law. It is clearly in the best interest of both the male and the female athletes to have an increase in women's opportunities and a small decrease in men's opportunities, if necessary, rather than, as under Brown's plan, no increase in women's opportunities and a large decrease in men's opportunities. Cir.1994) (citing United States v. Rivera-Martinez, 931 F.2d 148 (1st Cir. Nevertheless, the University wishes to act in good faith with the order of the Court, notwithstanding issues of fact and law which are currently in dispute. at ----, 115 S.Ct. Brown . 497 U.S. at 564-65, 110 S.Ct. Equal Protection is implicated where the claim is made that a classification made by the government intentionally subjects an individual to treatment different from similarly situated individuals based on an impermissible characteristic, such as race, national origin, or gender. 30,406, 30,409 (remarks of Sen. Bayh); 117 Cong.Rec. The district court's narrow, literal interpretation should be rejected because prong three cannot be read in isolation. Subsection (b) also provides, however, that it shall not be construed to prevent the consideration in any proceeding under this chapter of statistical evidence tending to show that such an imbalance exists with respect to the participation in, or receipt of the benefits of, any such program or activity by the members of one sex. Id. A second Supreme Court case has also made it necessary to review our decision in Cohen II. See, e.g., United States v. Paradise, 480 U.S. 149, 107 S.Ct. at 469, 109 S.Ct. From the mere fact that a remedy flowing from a judicial determination of discrimination is gender-conscious, it does not follow that the remedy constitutes affirmative action. Nor does a reverse discrimination claim arise every time an anti-discrimination statute is enforced. 578, 584 (W.D.Pa. docx.docx from POLI 212 at Walden University. 515 U.S. at ----, 115 S.Ct. at 192. 1681(b) (West 1990) (emphasis added). In order to bring Brown into compliance with prong one under defendants' Phase II, I would have to order Brown to cut enough men's teams to eradicate approximately 213 men's varsity positions. Law School Case Brief; Cohen v. Brown Univ. According to the district court, the unmet interests of the underrepresented sex must be completely accommodated before any of the interest of the overrepresented gender can be accommodated.28. at 200, intercollegiate teams are those that regularly participate in varsity competition. See 44 Fed.Reg. The court noted further that, because merely reducing program offerings to the overrepresented gender does not constitute program expansion for the underrepresented gender, the fact that Brown has eliminated or demoted several men's teams does not amount to a continuing practice of program expansion for women. at 565, 110 S.Ct. Courts and institutions must have some way of determining whether an institution complies with the mandate of Title IX and its supporting regulations to provide equal athletics opportunities for both genders, despite the fact that the institution maintains single-sex teams, and some way of fashioning a remedy upon a determination that the institution does not equally and effectively accommodate the interests and abilities of both genders. In my view it is the result of the test, and not the number of steps involved, that should determine if a quota system exists. Appellees have argued that the three-prong test does not create a gender classification because the classification applies to both women and men. FindLaw.com Free, trusted legal information for consumers and legal professionals, SuperLawyers.com Directory of U.S. attorneys with the exclusive Super Lawyers rating, Abogado.com The #1 Spanish-language legal website for consumers, LawInfo.com Nationwide attorney directory and legal consumer resources. This argument rests, in part, upon Brown's reading of 20 U.S.C. True affirmative action cases have historically involved a voluntary10 undertaking to remedy discrimination (as in a program implemented by a governmental body, or by a private employer or institution), by means of specific group-based preferences or numerical goals, and a specific timetable for achieving those goals. Of the university-funded teams, 12 were men's teams and 13 were women's teams; of the donor-funded teams, three were women's teams and four were men's teams. at 71,418. 1681(a) (1988). The district court found from extensive testimony that the donor-funded women's gymnastics, women's fencing and women's ski teams, as well as at least one women's club team, the water polo team, had demonstrated the interest and ability to compete at the top varsity level and would benefit from university funding.4 Id. Brown has contended throughout this litigation that the significant disparity in athletics opportunities for men and women at Brown is the result of a gender-based differential in the level of interest in sports and that the district court's application of the three-part test requires universities to provide athletics opportunities for women to an extent that exceeds their relative interests and abilities in sports. While the Title IX regime permits institutions to maintain gender-segregated teams, the law does not require that student-athletes attending institutions receiving federal funds must compete on gender-segregated teams; nor does the law require that institutions provide completely gender-integrated athletics programs.14 To the extent that Title IX allows institutions to maintain single-sex teams and gender-segregated athletics programs, men and women do not compete against each other for places on team rosters. This standard may be practical for certain sports that require large teams, but what of individual sports? at ----, 116 S.Ct. Brown impliedly assumes that Adarand' s partial overruling of Metro Broadcasting invalidates the prior panel's disposition of Brown's equal protection challenge by virtue of its passing citation to Metro Broadcasting. Prong three requires some kind of evidence of interest in athletics, and the Title IX framework permits the use of statistical evidence in assessing the level of interest in sports.15 Nevertheless, to allow a numbers-based lack-of-interest defense to become the instrument of further discrimination against the underrepresented gender would pervert the remedial purpose of Title IX. T.B., 511 U.S. 127, 136-37, and n. 6, 114 S.Ct. I fail to see how these statements can be reconciled with the claim that Brown cannot satisfy prong two by reducing the number of participation opportunities for men. 1993) Rule: A district court, faced with a motion for preliminary injunction, must assess the request in four particular ways, evaluating: (1) the movant's probability of victory on the merits; (2) the potential for irreparable harm if the injunction is refused; (3) the balance of interests as between the parties, i.e . of Cal. The plaintiff class comprises all present, future, and potential Brown University women students who participate, seek to participate, and/or are deterred from participating in intercollegiate athletics funded by Brown. 7261(a)(1). 1946, 1961, 60 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979). Thus, Brown contends, to meet fully-in an absolute sense-the interests and abilities of an underrepresented gender, while unmet interest among the overrepresented gender continues, would contravene the governing principle of equally effective accommodat[ion] of the interests and abilities of students of both genders. 2038, 2048, 132 L.Ed.2d 63 (1995) (acknowledging the constitutional permissibility of court-ordered, race-conscious remedial plans designed to restore victims of discrimination to the positions they would have occupied in the absence of such conduct); Fullilove, 448 U.S. at 483, 100 S.Ct. This appeal followed. . With respect to prong three, Brown asserts that the district court's interpretation of the word fully requires universities to favor women's teams and treat them better than men's [teams] forces them to eliminate or cap men's teams [and] forces universities to impose athletic quotas in excess of relative interests and abilities. Appellant's Br. Furthermore, both of the cases cited by the court in Cohen II are cases in which a suspect classification was allowed because it was judged benign, see id. We then consider the district court's order rejecting Brown's plan and the specific relief ordered by the court in its place. First, notwithstanding Brown's persistent invocation of the inflammatory terms affirmative action, preference, and quota, this is not an affirmative action case. To assert that Title IX permits institutions to provide fewer athletics participation opportunities for women than for men, based upon the premise that women are less interested in sports than are men, is (among other things) to ignore the fact that Title IX was enacted in order to remedy discrimination that results from stereotyped notions of women's interests and abilities. Brown also contends that the district court erred in excluding the NCAA Annual Report. Trades Council, 485 U.S. 568, 108 S.Ct. at 64-66, 71-73, 112 S.Ct. a Title IX plaintiff in an athletic discrimination suit must accompany statistical evidence of disparate impact with some further evidence of discrimination . Additionally, section 1681(a), a provision enacted by Congress as part of Title IX itself, casts doubt on the district court's reading of prong three. Cohen v. Brown is a class-action lawsuit named for Amy Cohen, a former gymnast and plaintiff in the suit. This is a successful motion to enforce a 1998 court judgment against Brown University for violating Title IX. at 2724 (holding that Title VII does not prohibit private employers from voluntarily implementing race-conscious measures to eliminate manifest racial imbalances in traditionally segregated job categories); McDaniel v. Barresi, 402 U.S. 39, 41, 91 S.Ct. 185, 214 (D.R.I.1995) ( Cohen III). In other words, the second prong also requires balancing. Congress enacted Title IX in response to its finding-after extensive hearings held in 1970 by the House Special Subcommittee on Education-of pervasive discrimination against women with respect to educational opportunities. 1211, 1221-22, 79 L.Ed.2d 516 (1984) (holding that Title IX was program-specific and thus applied only to those university programs that actually receive federal funds and not to the rest of the university), with athletics prominently in mind. 1192, 51 L.Ed.2d 360 (1977) (sex)). The district court found that, in 1993-94, Brown's intercollegiate athletics program consisted of 32 teams, 16 men's teams and 16 women's teams. Given our disposition of this claim, we do not address these arguments. This difficulty was recognized in Cohen II, which stated that the mere fact that there are some female students interested in a sport does not ipso facto require the school to provide a varsity team in order to comply with the third benchmark. Cohen II 991 F.2d at 898. 2097, 132 L.Ed.2d 158 (1995) ( Adarand), controls this case necessarily presumes that Adarand constitutes a contrary intervening decision by controlling authority on point that (i) undermines the validity of Cohen II; (ii) compels us to depart from the law of the case doctrine; and (iii) therefore mandates that we reexamine Brown's equal protection claim. 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