Is title nine a challengable law?

[TheBigDA]

Is there any way it can be repealed?

 

[patdog]

In the real world, no 17-ing way.

 

[lawdawg02]

it applies to education in general - VERY broad in scope. its application to athletics is merely a byproduct. why do you ask? any law can be challenged if you have standing to claim that its unconstitutional or if you can get enough support against it to make the legislature act.

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[uscreb]

of educational codes was initially designed to deal with broader issues of access in education based on, among other things, gender. There have been numerous Supreme Court challenges and the high court has generally either declined to hear the case or has found in favor of the institution supporting Title Nine and not the plaintiff. Such a strong history of judicial opinion in favor of broad interpretation of the codes is unlikely to be reversed.

 

[TheBigDA]

Looking at it as far as a research/dissertation topic. Trying to gauge perspectives.

 

[rebelrouseri]

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[uscreb]

dissertations. To the extent that there are openings, they are probably in the area of sexual orientation and gender identity. I know that as far back as the late 1980's when I was doing mine at USC, one of my classmates had a very difficult time getting her project off the ground because her committee had problems with its "originality."

One area that might be interesting would be to look at ethno-cultural understandings of Title IX protections. Do African-American or Latino-Americans understand it differently. If you moved from one current construction that African-American and Caribbean-American cultures tend to be matri-focal, while Latino-American cultures tend to be patriarchal, you might expect that African-Americans would more broadly support Title IX, while Latino-Americans would find the protections offered superfluous. Just a thought.

 

[lawdawg02]

i was thinking more along the lines of:

latino athletes seem to be geared more toward soccer, which is one of the "odd men out" when colleges are forced to scale back on men's interscholastic sports. ensuring that women have an equal number of sports to choose from - by limiting the availability of men's sports - leads to a byproduct of discrimination against latino men, by consistently leaving out the main sport of their interest.

 

[Pony Express.sixpack]

Type "Cal Pole Vault" in google images.</p>

 

[uscreb]

would doubly hate Title IX.