Extremely Persuasive Justification Test. See id. 106.37(c) and 106.41. Cohen II, 991 F.2d at 901 (finding no constitutional infirmity, assuming arguendo, that the regulation creates a classification somewhat in favor of women). See Cohen II, 991 F.2d at 901 ([T]here is no need to search for analogies where, as in the Title IX milieu, the controlling statutes and regulations are clear.). v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265, 98 S.Ct. 1996) . This is a successful motion to enforce a 1998 court judgment against Brown University for violating Title IX. (3)Where the members of one sex are underrepresented among intercollegiate athletes, and the institution cannot show a continuing practice of program expansion such as that cited above, whether it can be demonstrated that the interests and abilities of the members of that sex have been fully and effectively accommodated by the present program. 44 Fed.Reg. 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. Copyright 2023, Thomson Reuters. 706, 102 L.Ed.2d 854, Brown concludes that strict scrutiny applies to gender-based classifications.21 Appellant's Br. While the Virginia Court made liberal use of the phrase exceedingly persuasive justification, and sparse use of the formulation substantially related to an important governmental objective, the Court nevertheless struck down the gender-based admissions policy at issue in that case under intermediate scrutiny, 518 U.S. at ----, ----, 116 S.Ct. at 1195-96. The district court grated Cohen a preliminary injunction . In concluding that the district court's interpretation and application of the three-part test creates a quota, Brown errs, in part, because it fails to recognize that (i) the substantial proportionality test of prong one is only the starting point, and not the conclusion, of the analysis; and (ii) prong three is not implicated unless a gender-based disparity with respect to athletics participation opportunities has been shown to exist. 1996) Rule: Title IX of the Education Code, 20 U.S.C.S. In Cohen II we stated that it is established beyond peradventure that, where no contrary legislative directive appears, the federal judiciary possesses the power to grant any appropriate relief on a cause of action appropriately brought pursuant to a federal statute. 991 F.2d at 901 (citing Franklin, 503 U.S. at 70-71, 112 S.Ct. A second Supreme Court case has also made it necessary to review our decision in Cohen II. Co. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Comm'n, 55 F.3d 686, 688 (1st Cir.1995). But any such departure demands special justification.) (quoting Arizona v. Rumsey, 467 U.S. 203, 212, 104 S.Ct. (v) Brown will make explicit a de facto junior varsity team for women's field hockey. Second, the standard of review has changed. This is a class action lawsuit charging Brown University, its president, and its athletic director (collectively "Brown") with violating Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. A school can satisfy the test in three ways. This approach contravenes the purpose of the statute and the regulation because it does not permit an institution or a district court to remedy a gender-based disparity in athletics participation opportunities. 1681(b) (West 1990). As the Seventh Circuit observed, Congress itself recognized that addressing discrimination in athletics presented a unique set of problems not raised in areas such as employment and academics. Kelley, 35 F.3d at 270 (citing Sex Discrimination Regulations, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Post Secondary Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, 94th Cong., 1st Sess. at 204, 97 S.Ct. Cohen III, 879 F.Supp. As noted in Cohen, 879 F.Supp. at 3008. 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. Co., 3 F.3d 471, 475 (1st Cir.1993), cert. The email address cannot be subscribed. at 71,417.The 1990 version of the Title IX Athletics Investigator's Manual, an internal agency document, instructs investigating officials to consider, inter alia, the following: (i) any institutional surveys or assessments of students' athletics interests and abilities, see Valerie M. Bonnette & Lamar Daniel, Department of Education, Title IX Athletics Investigator's Manual at 22 (1990); (ii) the expressed interests of the underrepresented gender, id. 15. Amy Cohen (plaintiff), a member of the women's gymnastics team, and several other student-athletes filed suit against Brown alleging that the institution violated Title IX. [W]hereas Title VII is largely peremptory, Title IX is largely aspirational, and thus, a loosely laced buskin. Id. Rather than conduct an inquiry into whether Title IX and its resulting interpretations are benign or remedial, and conscious of the fact that labels can be used to hide illegitimate notions of inferiority or simple politics just as easily in the context of gender as in the context of race, we should now follow Adarand's lead and subject all gender-conscious government action to the same inquiry.25. at 205-06, 99 S.Ct. at 24, and that the law of the case doctrine does not prevent a court from changing its mind, id. 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 . Cohen I - Plaintiffs asked for a preliminary injunction that would require Brown to fund the women's teams and refrain from further reductions in direct funding for women's teams until the case could be heard. How could an academic institution with a large and diverse student body ever fully accommodate the athletic interests of its students? 2264, 135 L.Ed.2d 735 (1996), the Court faced an Equal Protection challenge to Virginia's practice of maintaining the Virginia Military Institute as an all male institution. The Policy Interpretation was designed specifically for intercollegiate athletics.12 44 Fed.Reg. 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. 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. 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. Id. at 895. We point out that Virginia adds nothing to the analysis of equal protection challenges to gender-based classifications that has not been part of that analysis since 1979, long before Cohen II was decided. 19. 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. See also Weber, 443 U.S. at 201-02, 99 S.Ct. Nor did Brown satisfy prong two. at 2117). From a constitutional standpoint, the case before us is altogether different. 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. 5808 (1972) (remarks of Sen. Bayh) (quoted in Haffer, 524 F.Supp. In addition, the concept of preference does not have the same meaning, or raise the same equality concerns, as it does in the employment and admissions contexts. The district court concluded that intercollegiate athletics opportunities means real opportunities, not illusory ones, and therefore should be measured by counting actual participants. Id. E.g., A.M. Capen's Co. v. American Trading and Prod. 92-2483 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. 25. at 189. at 46, 54, 125, 129, 152, 177, 299-300 (1975); 118 Cong.Rec. Co., 41 F.3d 764, 769 (1st. 2. Cohen v. Brown University, which the First Circuit just referred to as "This landmark Title IX case," started in April 1992, after the school stopped funding its varsity women's gymnastics and volleyball teams. 2097, 132 L.Ed.2d 158 (1995), however, courts applying intermediate scrutiny sometimes allowed benign gender classifications on the grounds that they were a reasonable means of compensating women as a class for past discrimination. Ronald D. Rotunda & John E. Novack, 3 Treatise on Constitutional Law 18.23, at 277; see Califano v. Webster, 430 U.S. 313, 317, 97 S.Ct. It has been determined that Brown cannot avail itself of this defense. Cohen II, 991 F.2d at 903. In other words. A diverse judiciary is vital to maintaining the public's confidence in the courts. 2755, 2762-63, 49 L.Ed.2d 651 (1976). 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. The district court's narrow, literal interpretation should be rejected because prong three cannot be read in isolation. Injury is Cohen v. Brown University 1st Circuit Court of Appeals 991 F.2d 888 (1st Cir. 106.41(c)(1) (1995), regardless of its performance with respect to other Title IX areas. at n. 1. at 189. at 3008, in upholding against a Fifth Amendment equal protection challenge a benign race-based affirmative action program that was adopted by an agency at the explicit direction of Congress. 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. Cohen v. Brown is a class-action lawsuit named for Amy Cohen, a former gymnast and plaintiff in the suit. at 203 n. 36. The district court did not find that full and effective accommodation of the athletics interests and abilities of Brown's female students would disadvantage Brown's male students. Brown also fails to recognize that Title IX's remedial focus is, quite properly, not on the overrepresented gender, but on the underrepresented gender; in this case, women. The majority offers no guidance to a school seeking to assess the levels of interest of its students. In this case, however, the record before the prior panel was sufficiently developed and the facts necessary to shape the proper legal matrix [we]re sufficiently clear, Cohen II, 991 F.2d at 904, and nothing in the record subsequently developed at trial constitutes substantially different evidence that might undermine the validity of the prior panel's rulings of law. Virginia drastically revise[d] our established standards for reviewing sex-based classifications. Id. Croson Co., 488 U.S. 469, 493, 109 S.Ct. at 2275-exceedingly persuasive justification in light of section 1681(b)'s no quota provision. The Fullilove plurality inquired whether the objectives of th[e] legislation are within the power of Congress [] and whether the limited use of racial and ethnic criteria is a constitutionally permissible means for achieving the congressional objectives. 448 U.S. at 473, 100 S.Ct. 26. Get free access to the complete judgment in COHEN v. BROWN UNIVERSITY, (D.R.I. Although I agree that by its words, the test would apply to men at institutions where they are proportionately underrepresented in intercollegiate athletics, I cannot accept the argument that, via this provision, the Government does not classify its citizens by gender. 106.41(b)(1995) provides that an academic institution may operate 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. 34 C.F.R. (concluding that not only would government action precluding competition between individuals of different races for law school admissions be unconstitutional, but in fact even partial consideration of race among other factors would be unconstitutional), cert. 1681-1688 (Title IX), and its implementing regulations, 34 C.F.R. Under the district court's interpretation, a school facing budgetary constraints must, in order to comply with prong two, increase the opportunities available to the underrepresented gender, even if it cannot afford to do so. Cohen v. Brown Univ., 991 F.2d 888, 907 (1st Cir.1993) (Cohen II). 379, 384 (1995) (citing Grottveit, supra). I believe that the three prong test, as the district court interprets it, is a quota. Despite these statements, however, the majority in its opinion today, and the district court before it, have failed to give Brown University freedom to craft its own athletic program and to choose the priorities of that program. Brown offers remarkably little in the way of analysis or authority to support its blithe contention that we are free to disregard Cohen II in disposing of this appeal. Under even the largest athletic program, it would be surprising to find that there is not a single student who would prefer to participate in athletics but does not do so because the school does not offer a program in the particular sport that interests the student. of Educ., 402 U.S. 1, 25, 91 S.Ct. 106.37(c) and 106.41(c)]. 44 Fed.Reg. App. at 19-20. 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). Id. Because the precise questions presented regarding the proper interpretation of the Title IX framework were considered and decided by a panel of this court in the prior appeal, and because no exception to the law of the case doctrine is presented, we have no occasion to reopen the issue here. With these precepts in mind, we first examine the compliance plan Brown submitted to the district court in response to its order. 612 (1974).6 The regulations specifically address athletics at 34 C.F.R. 1681-1688, provides that no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. at 463 (statistics exhibit a variety of shortcomings that seriously impugn their value to equal protection analysis); id. We have also recognized that this exception may apply in those rare situations where newly emergent authority, although not directly controlling, nevertheless offers a convincing reason for believing that the earlier panel, in light of the neoteric developments, would change its course. Id. This appeal followed. [24] This provision governs the distribution of athletic scholarships under the general caption of financial assistance in education programs. The methods are responsive to the expressed interests of students capable of intercollegiate competition who are members of an underrepresented sex.44 Fed.Reg. Title IX is an anti-discrimination statute, modeled after Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. See Adarand, 515 U.S. 200, 115 S.Ct. It seems to me that a quota with an exception for situations in which there are insufficient interested students to allow the school to meet it remains a quota. at 1949 n. 2 (observing with respect to the relevance of the University of Chicago's statistical evidence regarding the small number of female applicants to its medical school, in comparison to male applicants, that the dampening impact of a discriminatory rule may undermine the relevance of figures relating to actual applicants). View Cohen v. Brown University. For simplicity, we treat DED as the promulgating agency. The Clarification Memorandum contains many examples illustrating how institutions may meet each prong of the three-part test and explains how participation opportunities are to be counted under Title IX. of the Commonwealth Sys. 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. As Brown puts it, [t]he [equal protection] violation arises from the court's holding that Title IX requires the imposition of quotas, preferential treatment, and disparate treatment in the absence of a compelling state interest and a determination that the remedial measure is narrowly tailored to serve that interest. Reply Br. As to the propriety of Brown's proposal to come into compliance by the addition of junior varsity positions, the district court held: Positions on distinct junior varsity squads do not qualify as intercollegiate competition opportunities under the Policy Interpretation and should not be included in defendants' plan. Brown, on the other hand, argues that prong three is satisfied when (1) the interests and abilities of members of the proportionately underrepresented gender (2) are accommodated to the same degree as the proportionately overrepresented gender. at 6. 1392, 99 L.Ed.2d 645 (1988); see NLRB v. Catholic Bishop of Chicago, 440 U.S. 490, 507, 99 S.Ct. See 44 Fed.Reg. Specifically, Brown argues that the district court's interpretation and application of the test is irreconcilable with the statute, the regulation, and the agency's interpretation of the law, and effectively renders Title IX an affirmative action statute that mandates preferential treatment for women by imposing quotas in excess of women's relative interests and abilities in athletics. . Stay up-to-date with how the law affects your life. 1287, 1288-89, 28 L.Ed.2d 582 (1971) (recognizing that measures required to remedy race discrimination will almost invariably require race-conscious classifications, and that [a]ny other approach would freeze the status quo that is the very target of all desegregation processes). Id. Co. v. Walbrook Ins. The preliminary injunction issued by the district court in Cohen I, 809 F.Supp. See Grivois v. Brown, 6 Vet. Second, Brown's efforts to evade the controlling authority of Cohen II by recasting its core legal arguments as challenges to the district court's interpretation of the law are unavailing; the primary arguments raised here have already been litigated and decided adversely to Brown in the prior appeal. Finally, it is important to remember that Brown University is a private institution with a constitutionally protected First Amendment right to choose its curriculum. Counting new women's junior varsity positions as equivalent to men's full varsity positions flagrantly violates the spirit and letter of Title IX; in no sense is an institution providing equal opportunity if it affords varsity positions to men but junior varsity positions to women. 2733, 57 L.Ed.2d 750 (1978) (striking down a state medical school's admissions policy that set aside 16 of its places for racial minorities). 2305, 2310-11, 81 L.Ed.2d 164 (1984)).9. 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. The panel explained that, while evidence of a gender-based disparity in an institution's athletics program is relevant to a determination of noncompliance, 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. Id. Therefore, we still have the problem that to fully accommodate the interests of the underrepresented sex may be impossible under the district court's interpretation. See Clarification Memorandum at 8 (If an institution has recently eliminated a viable team from the intercollegiate program, OCR will find that there is sufficient interest, ability, and available competition to sustain an intercollegiate team in that sport unless an institution can provide strong evidence that interest, ability or available competition no longer exists.); 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. This argument rests, in part, upon Brown's reading of 20 U.S.C. In considering plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction in Cohen I, the district court (i) paid meticulous attention to the parties' prospects for success over the long haul; (ii) plainly visualized both the factual intricacies and legal complexities that characterize Title IX litigation; (iii) held a lengthy adversary hearing and reviewed voluminous written submissions; and (iv) correctly focused on the three-part accommodation test. Cohen II, 991 F.2d at 903. Walsh v. See Cohen II, 991 F.2d at 901. 451, 462-463, 50 L.Ed.2d 397 (1976), stressed that the principles embodied in the Equal Protection Clause are not to be rendered inapplicable by statistically measured but loose-fitting generalities. See also id. As the Supreme Court has explained, [b]ecause applying an agency's regulation to complex or changing circumstances calls upon the agency's unique expertise and policymaking prerogatives, we presume that the power authoritatively to interpret its own regulations is a component of the agency's delegated lawmaking powers. Martin, 499 U.S. at 151, 111 S.Ct. They heated the cellar accordingly but this raised the temperature on the floor above, which caused the plaintiff's stock of delicate brown paper to dry and diminish in value. The school argues women are less interested in sports than men. Although Cohen II, in its brief discussion of the equal protection issue, does not specify the precise standard it used, the court stated that even if we were to assume that the regulation creates a gender classification slanted somewhat in favor of women, we would find no constitutional infirmity. Cohen II, 991 F.2d at 901. . 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. Applying the second prong of the intermediate scrutiny test, we find that the means employed by the district court in fashioning relief for the statutory violation are clearly substantially related to these important objectives. at 1196. 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. 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. at ----, 116 S.Ct. 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. Agency responsibility for administration of Title IX shifted from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) to DED when HEW split into two agencies, DED and the Department of Health and Human Services. As a private institution that receives federal financial assistance, Brown is required to comply with Title IX. Cohen v. Brown Univ., 991 F.2d 888, 907 (1st Cir.1993) ("Cohen II "). . Brown contends that we are free to disregard the prior panel's explication of the law in Cohen II. The regulation at issue in this case, 34 C.F.R. The panel then carefully delineated the burden of proof, which requires a Title IX plaintiff to show, not only disparity between the gender composition of the institution's student body and its athletic program, thereby proving that there is an underrepresented gender, 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. As have a number of other circuits, we have determined that issues decided on appeal should not be reopened unless the evidence on a subsequent trial was substantially different, controlling authority has since made a contrary decision of law applicable to such issues, or the decision was clearly erroneous and would work a manifest injustice. Rivera-Martinez, 931 F.2d at 151 (quoting White v. Murtha, 377 F.2d 428, 432 (5th Cir.1967)) (other citations omitted). After rejecting Brown's proposed plan, but bearing in mind Brown's stated objectives, the district court fashioned its own remedy: I have concluded that Brown's stated objectives will be best served if I design a remedy to meet the requirements of prong three rather than prong one. [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. It does not follow from our statutory and constitutional analyses that we endorse the district court's remedial order. at ----, 116 S.Ct. 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. Further, inappropriately relying on Frontiero, 411 U.S. 677, 93 S.Ct. 22. Thus, the legislative history strongly suggests that the underscored language defines what is proscribed (in the contexts of admissions and hiring) in terms of a geographical area, beyond the institution, and does not refer to an imbalance within the university, with respect to the representation of each gender in intercollegiate athletics, as compared to the gender makeup of the student body. Even under the individual rights theory of equal protection, reaffirmed in Adarand, 515 U.S. at ----, 115 S.Ct. Cohen II squarely rejected Brown's interpretation of the three-part test and carefully delineated its own, which is now the law of this circuit as well as the law of this case. Trial on the merits has served to focus these questions and to provide background that allows us to consider these questions in the proper context and in detail. Title IX provides that [n]o person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded 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.A. Furthermore, the majority recognizes that institutions are entitled to use any nondiscriminatory method of their choosing to determine athletic interests. Co., 41 F.3d at 770 (citing 1B Moore at 0.404[10]). at 188. 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. Ryan v. Royal Ins. 30,407 (1971) (same)). It is obvious that Brown's plan was addressed to this court, rather than to offering a workable solution to a difficult problem. IA, respectively, are co-counsel for the plaintiff class in Cohen v. Brown University, along with Lynette Labinger of . Although the three-prong test, even as interpreted by the district court, appears to allow the school the opportunity to show a lack of interest, the majority rejects the best-and perhaps the only-mechanism for making such a showing. I recognize the financial constraints Brown faces; however, its own priorities will necessarily determine the path to compliance it elects to take. at 2113. 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. For example, in holding that Oklahoma's 3.2% beer statute invidiously discriminated against males 18-20 years of age, the Court in Craig v. Boren, 429 U.S. 190, 208-209, 97 S.Ct. at ----, 116 S.Ct. In Cohen v. Brown University, plaintiff Amy Cohen challenges the elimination of women's gymnastics and volleyball teams. A pragmatic overview of the effect of the three-prong test leads me to reject the majority's claim that the three-prong test does not amount to a quota because it involves multiple prongs. It can hardly be assumed that the Court intended to include gender-based classifications within Adarand's precedential scope or to elevate, sub silentio, the level of scrutiny to be applied by a reviewing court to such classifications. 4. 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