Here, however, it has not been shown that Brown's men students will be disadvantaged by the full and effective accommodation of the athletics interests and abilities of its women students. 706, 102 L.Ed.2d 854, the Court applied strict scrutiny in striking down a municipal minority set-aside program for city construction contracts. Id. Under the new standards established in those cases, Cohen II is flawed both because it applies a lenient version of intermediate scrutiny that is impermissible following Adarand and because it did not apply the exceedingly persuasive justification test of Virginia. 22. Furthermore, the claim that a reduction in the opportunities given to the overrepresented gender is an unacceptable method of coming into compliance with the three prong test is contrary to both Cohen II and comments of the majority opinion. 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. To the extent that Brown challenges the constitutionality of the statutory scheme itself, the challenge rests upon at least two erroneous assumptions: first, that Adarand is controlling authority on point that compels us, not only to consider Brown's constitutional challenge anew, but also to apply strict scrutiny to the analysis; second, that the district court's application of the law in its liability analysis on remand is inconsistent with the interpretation expounded in the prior appeal. The prior panel considered and rejected Brown's approach, observing that Brown reads the full out of the duty to accommodate fully and effectively. Cohen II, 991 F.2d at 899. It would remain under monitoring today. We note that Brown presses its relative interests argument under both prong one and prong three. One need look no further than the impressive performances of our country's women athletes in the 1996 Olympic Summer Games to see that Title IX has had a dramatic and positive impact on the capabilities of our women athletes, particularly in team sports. On remand, the district court's liability analysis explicitly and faithfully adhered to Cohen II's mandate, and we are bound to do the same at this stage of the litigation, absent one of the exceptional circumstances discussed supra. Notwithstanding the requirements of paragraph (a) of this section, a recipient may operate or sponsor separate teams for members of each sex where selection of such teams is based upon competitive skill or the activity involved is a contact sport. at 981. 9. 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. This precedent-setting ruling, which set the standard for determining a school's compliance with Title IX in . at 1846-47. 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. 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. Brown also claims error in the district court's failure to apply Title VII standards to its analysis of whether Brown's intercollegiate athletics program complies with Title IX. Learn more about FindLaws newsletters, including our terms of use and privacy policy. The district court's definition of athletics participation opportunities comports with the agency's own definition. 106.37(c) and 106.41. We hold that the district court did not err in the degree of deference it accorded the regulation and the relevant agency pronouncements. Plaintiff should've reasonably been able to take care of himself. The unprecedented success of these athletes is due, in no small measure, to Title IX's beneficent effects on women's sports, as the athletes themselves have acknowledged time and again. 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. at 895. 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. 106.41, deserves controlling weight, 991 F.2d at 895; that the Policy Interpretation warrants substantial deference, id. at 1031-33, 1035-37. The regulation at 34 C.F.R. Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded for further proceedings. In its decision in Cohen II, this court recognized and, indeed, emphasized the fact that its holding was only preliminary. While the Policy Interpretation covers other areas, this litigation focuses on the Effective Accommodation section, which interprets 34 C.F.R. As a private institution that receives federal financial assistance, Brown is required to comply with Title IX. Indeed, every circuit court to have reviewed a Title IX claim of discrimination in athletics since Cohen II was decided is in accord with its explication of the Title IX regime as it applies to athletics. The relevant facts, legal principles, and procedural history of this case have been set forth in exhaustive detail in the previous opinions issued in this case. That notwithstanding, where-as here-the resulting regulation is susceptible to more than one reasonable interpretation, we owe no such deference to the interpretation chosen where the choice is made not by the agency but by the district court. See Adarand Constr. of Cal. Id. However, although Congress could easily have done so, it did not ban affirmative action or gender-conscious remedies under Title IX. See, e.g., United States v. Paradise, 480 U.S. 149, 107 S.Ct. 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. At the preliminary injunction stage, Brown propounded the same relative interests argument under prong three. As Brown rightly argues, the district court's application of the three-prong test requires Brown to allocate its athletic resources to meet the as-yet-unmet interest of a member of the underrepresented sex, women in this case, while simultaneously neglecting any unmet interest among individuals of the overrepresented sex. The University has agreed to pay over $1.13 million in attorney's fees and $40,000 in litigation costs to the plaintiffs of Cohen v. Brown University following a Tuesday order by U.S. District Court Chief Judge John McConnell, according to court documents from the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. Ready, set, go. The prior panel held that [t]he fact that the overrepresented gender is less than fully accommodated will not, in and of itself, excuse a shortfall in the provision of opportunities for the underrepresented gender. Cohen II, 991 F.2d at 899. at 1848. (iv) Four new women's junior varsity teams-basketball, lacrosse, soccer, and tennis-will be university-funded. Later in the opinion, however, when the level of interest among women at Brown is at issue, the court adopts a much more critical attitude towards statistical evidence: [T]here exists the danger that, rather than providing a true measure of women's interest in sports, statistical evidence purporting to reflect women's interest instead provides only a measure of the very discrimination that is and has been the basis for women's lack of opportunity. Majority Opinion at 179. By including in its accounting a contact sport that requires very large numbers of participants, e.g., football, the district court skews the number of athletic participants-making it impossible for the university to provide both men's and women's teams in other sports. In providing for gender-segregated teams, intercollegiate athletics programs necessarily allocate opportunities separately for male and female students, and, thus, any inquiry into a claim of gender discrimination must compare the athletics participation opportunities provided for men with those provided for women. 1171, 1175-76, 113 L.Ed.2d 117 (1991) (quoting Lyng v. Payne, 476 U.S. 926, 939, 106 S.Ct. What stimulated this remarkable change in the quality of women's athletic competition was not a sudden, anomalous upsurge in women's interest in sports, but the enforcement of Title IX's mandate of gender equity in sports. Similarly, the district court's interpretation requires the school to accommodate the interests of every female student until proportionality is reached. 7. 1992). Appellee's Br. The district court's interpretation of prongs one and three creates an Equal Protection problem, which I analyze in two steps. 106.41(b). at 189. The Policy Interpretation was designed specifically for intercollegiate athletics.12 44 Fed.Reg. at 2274, for this particular quota scheme. Amy COHEN, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. BROWN UNIVERSITY, et al., Defendants-Appellants. The refusal to accept surveys of interest levels as evidence of interest raises the question of what indicators might be used. Finally, it is important to remember that Brown University is a private institution with a constitutionally protected First Amendment right to choose its curriculum. 34, 40 (1977) (Cox)), prompting former HEW Secretary Caspar Weinberger to remark, I had not realized until the comment period that athletics is the single most important thing in the United States, id. 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. While some gender-conscious relief may adversely impact one gender-a fact that has not been demonstrated in this case-that alone would not make the relief affirmative action or the consequence of that relief reverse discrimination. To the contrary, race- and gender-conscious remedies are both appropriate and constitutionally permissible under a federal anti-discrimination regime, although such remedial measures are still subject to equal protection review. Solutions. 1192, 1194-95, 51 L.Ed.2d 360 (1977); Frontiero v. Richardson, 411 U.S. 677, 684-86, 93 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. Id. As previously noted, Cohen II expressly held that a court assessing Title IX compliance may not find a violation solely because there is a disparity between the gender composition of an educational institution's student constituency, on the one hand, and its athletic programs, on the other hand. 991 F.2d at 895. at 981. Brown argues that the district court erred in concluding that it was obligated to give substantial deference to the Policy Interpretation, on the ground that the interpretation is not a worthy candidate for deference, Reply Br. The figures in question demonstrate that women's participation in athletics is less than proportional to their enrollment. The methods of determining interest and ability do not disadvantage the members of an underrepresented sex;c.The methods of determining ability take into account team performance records; andd. As a result, individual male and female students would be precluded from competing against each other for scarce resources; they would instead compete only against members of their own gender. Cohen v. Brown University, 101 F.3d 155 (1st. Id. at 902 (citing 44 Fed.Reg. See also Weber, 443 U.S. at 201-02, 99 S.Ct. at 2276, it went on to state that such [i]nherent differences' between men and women, we have come to appreciate, remain cause for celebration, but not for artificial constraints on an individual's opportunity. Id. at 25; (iii) other programs indicative of interests and abilities, such as club and intramural sports, sports programs at feeder schools, community and regional sports programs, and physical education classes, id.As the district court noted, however, the agency characterizes surveys as a simple way to identify which additional sports might appropriately be created to achieve compliance Thus, a survey of interests would follow a determination that an institution does not satisfy prong three; it would not be utilized to make that determination in the first instance. Cohen III, 879 F.Supp. Application of the Policy Interpretation is not limited to intercollegiate athletics, however. Because I am not persuaded that the majority's view represents the state of the law today, I respectfully dissent. at 992 (Brown is cutting off varsity opportunities where there is great interest and talent, and where Brown still has an imbalance between men and women varsity athletes in relation to their undergraduate enrollments.). whether it can be demonstrated that the interests and abilities of the members of th[e] [proportionately underrepresented] sex have been fully and effectively accommodated by the present program. There is simply no other way to assess participation rates, interest levels, and abilities. [T]he Court proceeds to interpret exceedingly persuasive justification in a fashion that contradicts the reasoning of Hogan and our other precedents. Id. 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. Brown also contends that the district court erred in excluding the NCAA Annual Report. - 101 F.3d 155 (1st Cir. Although the district court excluded as full exhibits two studies, the NCAA Gender Equity Study and the results of an undergraduate poll on student interest in athletics, it nevertheless permitted Brown's experts to rely on the data contained in these two reports as a basis for their expert opinions.24 Because Brown's experts relied upon the excluded data in providing their opinions on the issue of a gender-based differential in student interest in athletics, the evidence was before the trier of fact and any error was, therefore, harmless. The case is now before us on appeal from the merits and we must review it accordingly. The district court itself pointed out that Brown may achieve compliance with Title IX in a number of ways: It may eliminate its athletic program altogether, it may elevate or create the requisite number of women's positions, it may demote or eliminate the requisite number of men's positions, or it may implement a combination of these remedies. Where such a disparity has been established, the inquiry under prong three is whether the athletics interests and abilities of the underrepresented gender are fully and effectively accommodated, such that the institution may be found to comply with Title IX, notwithstanding the disparity.23. Cohen III, 879 F.Supp. It is well established, however, that a decision of the Supreme Court, that is rendered between two appeals and is irreconcilable with the decision on the first appeal, must be followed on the second appeal. In November 1996, we won a ruling in federal court that Brown University violated Title IX when it demoted its women's gymnastics and volleyball teams from university-funded to donor-funded varsity status. To do so, the school must fully and effectively accommodate the underrepresented gender's interests and abilities, even if that requires it to give the underrepresented gender (in this case, women) what amounts to a larger slice of a shrinking athletic-opportunity pie. 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. It is no less a quota if an exception exists for schools whose gender ratio differs from that of the local population but which admit every applicant of the underrepresented gender. at 189-90. at 1917-18 (directing that Title IX must be accorded a sweep as broad as its language). During the same academic year, Brown's undergraduate enrollment comprised 52.4% (2,951) men and 47.6% (2,683) women. It is clear, nevertheless, that Brown's proposal to cut men's teams is a permissible means of effectuating compliance with the statute. 1572, 55 L.Ed.2d 797 (1978) (summary affirmance of a district court decision upholding a provision of the Railroad Retirement Act that allowed women to retire at age 60 while men could not retire until age 65). Accordingly, we remand the case to the district court so that Brown can submit a further plan for its consideration. [W]here an otherwise acceptable construction of a statute would raise serious constitutional problems, [we] construe the statute to avoid such problems unless such construction is plainly contrary to the intent of Congress. Edward J. DeBartolo Corp. v. Florida Gulf Coast Bldg. In Mora, the plaintiff began clocking into work via fingerprint scan in 2014. Majority Opinion at 185 (quoting Cohen III). Thus, Brown will fully comply with Title IX by meeting the standards of prong three, without approaching satisfaction of the standards of prong one. The district court asserts that this is not a quota. The majority is unsympathetic to Brown's claim that the disparity between athletic opportunities for men and women reflect a gender-based difference in interest levels. (iii) No additional discretionary funds will be used for athletics. In Adarand, the Supreme Court held that all racial classifications must be analyzed under strict scrutiny. Adarand, 515 U.S. at ----, 115 S.Ct. 1364, 1370-71, 113 L.Ed.2d 411 (1991)). Adarand overruled Metro Broadcasting to the extent that Metro Broadcasting is inconsistent with Adarand's holding that all racial classifications, imposed by whatever federal, state, or local government actor, must be analyzed by a reviewing court under strict scrutiny. Adarand, 515U.S. [a]n institution does not provide equal opportunity if it caps its men's teams after they are well-stocked with high-caliber recruits while requiring women's teams to boost numbers by accepting walk-ons. Id. Case: Cohen v. Brown University 1:92-cv-00197 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. Specifically, with respect to Title IX's guarantee that no person shall be excluded on the basis of sex from participation in, be denied the benefits of or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance, 20 U.S.C. at 902. at 71,419 (Participation in intercollegiate sports has historically been emphasized for men but not women. at 194. See Personnel Adm'r v. Feeney, 442 U.S. 256, 273, 99 S.Ct. First, notwithstanding Brown's persistent invocation of the inflammatory terms affirmative action, preference, and quota, this is not an affirmative action case. 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. 44 Fed.Reg. Rather than create a quota or preference, this unavoidably gender-conscious comparison merely provides for the allocation of athletics resources and participation opportunities between the sexes in a non-discriminatory manner. We conclude that the district court's application of the three-part test does not create a gender-based quota and is consistent with Title IX, 34 C.F.R. The doctrine requires a trial court on remand to dispose of the case in accordance with the appellate court's mandate by implementing both the letter and the spirit of the mandate, taking into account the appellate court's opinion and the circumstances it embraces, United States v. Connell, 6 F.3d 27, 30 (1st Cir.1993) (quoting United States v. Kikumura, 947 F.2d 72, 76 (3d Cir.1991)), and binds newly constituted panels to prior panel decisions on point, e.g., Irving v. United States, 49 F.3d 830, 833-34 (1st Cir.1995); Metcalf & Eddy, Inc. v. Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Auth., 991 F.2d 935, 939 n. 3 (1st Cir.1993). Brown first contends that the court erred in barring cross-examination of plaintiffs' expert Dr. Sabor on the issue of why girls drop out of sports before reaching college. at 1848. The number of participants in Brown's varsity athletic program accurately reflects the number of participation opportunities Brown offers because the University, through its practices predetermines the number of athletic positions available to each gender. Section 1681(b) was patterned after 703(j) of Title VII, 42 U.S.C. For example, if a university chooses to sponsor a football team, it is permitted to sponsor only a men's team. . Measuring compliance through an evaluation of a school's allocation of its athletic resources allows schools flexibility in meeting the athletic interests of their students and increases the chance that the actual interests of those students will be met. In the course of the trial on the merits, the district court found that, in 1993-94, there were 897 students participating in intercollegiate varsity athletics, of which 61.87% (555) were men and 38.13% (342) were women. 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 . 92-2483 5804 (1972) (remarks of Sen. Bayh); North Haven Bd. In this unique context, Title IX operates to ensure that the gender-segregated allocation of athletics opportunities does not disadvantage either gender. Brown is no longer an appellant seeking a favorable result in the Court of Appeals. (quoting Regents of Univ. See Cohen II, 991 F.2d at 898 n. 15. Since Cohen II, however, Metro Broadcasting has been overruled, at least in part. at 200, intercollegiate teams are those that regularly participate in varsity competition. See 44 Fed.Reg. We assume, without deciding, that Brown has not waived its equal protection claim and has standing to raise it. The second prong is satisfied if an institution that cannot meet prong one can show a continuing practice of program expansion which is demonstrably responsive to the developing interest and abilities of the members of the underrepresented sex. 44 Fed.Reg. In Cohen I, 991 F.2d 888, the "watershed" case involving Title IX and university athletics, Brown University appealed from the district court's issuance of a preliminary injunction ordering Brown to reinstate its women's gymnastics and volleyball programs, pending the resolution of the plaintiffs' claim that the proposed cutbacks violated Title IX. 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