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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 | 1. Should sexual discrimination claims under Title VII and Title IX be analyzed under the traditional McDonnell Douglas "but-for " test as the Sixth… |
| 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 | Question not identified. | |
| 24A1076 | MaChelle Joseph v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-05-07 | Presumed Complete | canon-of-construction educational-institutions employment implied-right-of-action sex-discrimination title-ix | Question not identified. | |
| 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 | A university decision-maker admitted using 'sex' as one of the three factors in evaluating an accused student's credibility, resulting in expulsion. T… |
| 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 | Q1: Does it amount to deliberate indifference under Title IX when a recipient (a) fraudulently tailor sexual assault case outcome to secure federal fu… |
| 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 | 1. Whether the principles of due process prohibit the Ninth Circuit Court's consideration of a new argument raised by the State Defendants' on appeal … |
| 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 | 1. Whether a district court abuses its discretion when, without a finding of risk of physical harm, improper retaliation, or minor status, it permits … |
| 24A79 | Miguel Cardona, Secretary of Education, et al. v. Tennessee, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2024-07-22 | Denied | Amici (2) | administrative-law education-department gender-identity sex-discrimination title-ix transgender-rights | Whether the preliminary injunction issued by the district court, which enjoins the entire 2024 Title IX Rule, is overbroad and should be narrowed to a… |
| 24A78 | Department of Education, et al. v. Louisiana, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-22 | Denied | Amici (2) | administrative-law education-department gender-identity sex-discrimination title-ix transgender-rights | Question not identified. |
| 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? Is private industry aggrieved by a baseless… |
| 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 | 1. Whether Title IX prevents a state from consistently designating girls' and boys' sports teams based on biological sex determined at birth. 2. Whet… |
| 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 | 1. Whether the lower court rehed on demonstrably false information, submitted by Tufts University to reject Dr. Melissa Ing's retaliation and gender d… |
| 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 | Question not identified. | |
| 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 | 1. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 provides that "[n]o person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participa… |
| 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 | Question not identified. | |
| 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 | 1. Should this Court resolve the conflict among the Circuits as to the proper test for sex discrimination under 20 U.S.C. § 1681 in Title IX of the Ed… |
| 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 dictate a single national policy that prohibits local schools from maintaining separate bathrooms base… |
| 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.… |
| 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 | Since its landmark decision in Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education, 526 U.S. 629 (1999), the Court has not provided school districts with any gu… | |
| 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 | Question not identified. | |
| 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 | This case presents two circuit splits: one involving a public university's obligation to balance the due process rights of a student accused of sexual… |
| 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 claim under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. §§ 1681-1688, accrues after the date on which the al… |
| 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 | Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. §§ 1681-1688, prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in educational programs or activiti… |
| 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 | 1. Is it an important federal question of law for the U.S. Supreme Court to consider whether U.S. Courts of Appeal should be permitted to issue "NOT P… |
| 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 | In the matter of United State v. Morrison, 529 U.S. 598 (2000) the Violence Against Women Act civil remedy was invalidated. In March of 2022 the Viole… |
| 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 | 1. 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 … |
| 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 held liable under Title IX for sexual harassment that ceased before they were notified that it happened? |
| 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 | Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any educational program or activity that receives federal… |
| 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 | Title IX is a federal civil rights law that only applies to colleges and universities who voluntarily choose to seek and accept federal funding in ord… |
| 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 | [This Court and circuits have agreed: plaintiffs demonstrated triable issues for a jury on review of similar facts and issues under Title IX, See Davi… |
| 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 | The New York University Law Review is engaging in illegal race and sex discrimination when selecting articles for publication, as it asks authors to i… |
| 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 | 1. 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 harassm… |
| 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 | 1. Broadly, questions raised by the case include whether Plaintiff has a right to redress (both for discrimination and retaliation) under Title IX of … | |
| 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 | 1. Should this Court amend its holding in Goss v. Lopez, 419 U.S. 565, 579 (1975), and require federal courts to review the disciplinary decision of a… | |
| 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 | Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 24(a)(2), an entity that seeks to intervene as of right must establish that none of the existing parties "adequa… |
| 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 | I. Whether Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 affords a student intern the same legal protection against sexual harassment during an off… | |
| 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 | 1. The jury was told that for petitioner to prove her claim of retaliation, she must show she was terminated "solely as a consequence" of her protecte… |
| 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 school s to let transgender students use multi user restrooms designated for the opposite biologi… |
| 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 | Justice Thomas and Justice Sotomayor have criticized the "clearly established" prong of the qualified immunity test and would revisit the Court's prec… |
| 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 | 1. Does the conflict in fact among the Circuits involving, on the one hand, Doe v. Purdue , 928 F.3d 652 (7th Cir. 2019) (Barrett, J.), Doe v. Univers… |
| 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 | 1. Whether discrimination for a student because of sex constitutes a "denied . . . benefit " to the other sex within the meaning of Title IX of the Ed… |
| 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 | 1. Can Congress, in the exercise of Article I Spending Power, unilaterally expand federal judicial power for private civil damages actions asserted ag… |
| 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 | 1. Whether parents surrender their fundamental right to direct the upbringing of their children by enrolling them in public school so that a school di… | |
| 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, as the Sixth and Eighth Circuits hold, in disagreement with the First, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits, Davis's "vulnerability" prong requires p… |
| 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 | 1. Should senior legal officers of the state court of last resort, such as the Justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, be allowed to den… |
| 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 | Congress passed Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 ("Title IX") to provide a remedy to students attending publicly funded educational instit… |
| 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 | 1. Whether a recipient of federal funding may be held liable where it takes any action in response to complaints of sexual harassment. 2. Whether a v… |
| 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 | Petitioner, Dr. Teresa Buchanan, was terminated from her tenured position at Louisiana State University under the school's sexual harassment policies.… |
| 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 | When a federally-funded university consistently, deliberately and intentionally denies a Title IX investigation, the Statute of Limitations for Title … |
| 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 | 1. Does discrimination making a student vulnerable to harassment after a sexual assault create a cause of action for deliberate indifference by the in… |
| 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 | I. Did the NH District Court abuse its discretion in dismissing a proper Rehabilitation Act retaliation claim, when it incorrectly claimed a "scoured"… |
| 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 | IM asking the Court to over look My Case, and I'm hoping oCan be dismissed. it Will the outCome of the Writ of Certiorari affect My |
| 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 | Boyertown Area School District by policy authorizes some transgender students to use high school locker rooms and restrooms that match their subjectiv… |
| 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? Did Morg… |
| 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 | Broadly, questions raised by the case include whether Plaintiff has a right to redress (both for discrimination and retaliation) under Title IX of the… |