The district court entered final judgment on September 1, 1995, and on September 27, 1995, denied Brown's motion for additional findings of fact and to amend the judgment. We note that Brown presses its relative interests argument under both prong one and prong three. On remand, the district court determined after a lengthy bench trial that Brown's intercollegiate athletics program violates Title IX and its supporting regulations. 1910, 1914, 100 L.Ed.2d 465 (1988); see also Mississippi Univ. at 2728-29 (construing 703(j) of Title VII, upon which 1681(b) of Title IX was based, and concluding that [t]he natural inference is that Congress chose not to forbid all voluntary race-conscious affirmative action).In addition, remedial action and voluntary affirmative action to overcome the effects of gender discrimination are permitted under the Title IX regulations, 34 C.F.R. In the course of the preliminary injunction hearing, the district court found that, in the academic year 1990-91, Brown funded 31 intercollegiate varsity teams, 16 men's teams and 15 women's teams, Cohen I, 809 F.Supp. at 3336. 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. The Court also requires a focus on whether the proffered justification is exceedingly persuasive. Id. This is a successful motion to enforce a 1998 court judgment against Brown University for violating Title IX. 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. 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. 2816, 2830-31, 125 L.Ed.2d 511 (1993)). From a constitutional standpoint, the case before us is altogether different. Horner, 43 F.3d at 273 n. 6 (citing Cohen v. Brown Univ., 991 F.2d 888, 896 n. 10 (1st Cir.1993)). We then consider the district court's order rejecting Brown's plan and the specific relief ordered by the court in its place. We assume, without deciding, that Brown has not waived its equal protection claim and has standing to raise it. In Marengi v. 6 Forest Road LLC, 491 Mass. at 205. First, notwithstanding Brown's persistent invocation of the inflammatory terms affirmative action, preference, and quota, this is not an affirmative action case. 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. at ----, 116 S.Ct. Nevertheless, the remedy ordered for a violation of a federal anti-discrimination statute is still subject to equal protection review, assuming that it constitutes gender-conscious government action. First, as explained earlier, Adarand and Croson apply to review of legislative affirmative action schemes. Please try again. 2997, 111 L.Ed.2d 445 (1990) (upholding a federal program requiring race-based preferences); City of Richmond v. J.A. Cohen v. Brown Univ., 991 F.2d 888, 907 (1st Cir.1993) ("Cohen II "). 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. ; see also North Haven, 456 U.S. at 521, 102 S.Ct. Sch., 503 U.S. 60, 76, 112 S.Ct. The only women's varsity team created after this period was winter track, in 1982. U.S. District Court Chief Judge John McConnell, Jr. approved a stipulated order on Tuesday in Cohen v. Brown University, the landmark Title IX case, requiring Brown University to pay $1,135,000 . The district court subsequently issued a modified order, requiring Brown to submit a compliance plan within 60 days. at ----, 116 S.Ct. Bernier v. Boston Edison Co.: bad driver lady crashed into bad . Co. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Comm'n, 55 F.3d 686, 688 (1st Cir.1995). 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. 2297, 2303, 124 L.Ed.2d 586 (1993)). See Cohen II, 991 F.2d at 893. Brown concedes that Adarand does not, in partially overruling Metro Broadcasting, set forth the proper standard of review for this case. Appellant's Br. Rather, the Seventh Circuit endorsed the test as one for compliance, in dismissing the plaintiff's claims. at 5. As explained previously, Title IX as it applies to athletics is distinct from other anti-discrimination regimes in that it is impossible to determine compliance or to devise a remedy without counting and comparing opportunities with gender explicitly in mind. (c)Equal Opportunity. The reviewing court's mandate constitutes the law of the case on such issues of law as were actually considered and decided by the appellate court, or as were necessarily inferred from the disposition on appeal. Commercial Union Ins. Cohen II, 991 F.2d at 897. Brown asserts, in the alternative, that if the district court properly construed the test, then the test itself violates Title IX and the United States Constitution. at 71,415. 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). See also Weber, 443 U.S. at 201-02, 99 S.Ct. at 189. at 200, intercollegiate teams are those that regularly participate in varsity competition. See 44 Fed.Reg. 1912, 1919 n. 13, 72 L.Ed.2d 299 (1982). at ----, 115 S.Ct. The Bond InjunctionSchooner Lost. 1842, 90 L.Ed.2d 260 (1986) (striking down a collective-bargaining faculty lay-off provision requiring preferential treatment for certain racial minorities); Fullilove v. Klutznick, 448 U.S. 448, 100 S.Ct. In computing these figures, the district court counted as participants in intercollegiate athletics for purposes of Title IX analysis those athletes who were members of varsity teams for the majority of the last complete season. Cohen III, 879 F.Supp. The District Court's Interpretation and the Resulting Equal Protection Problem. 1681(b) (West 1990) (emphasis added). Brown University's main campus Credit: Kylie Cooper A group of students on women's athletic teams filed a motion against Brown in 2020 after the university demoted multiple women's varsity teams to club teams, according to a press release from the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island. How could an academic institution with a large and diverse student body ever fully accommodate the athletic interests of its students? 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. 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. 2. . Massachusetts Court Clarifies Recently Enacted Bond Provision in Zoning and Comprehensive Permit Appeals. 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 Neither this court nor the Supreme Court has drawn this distinction in the context of gender discrimination claims or held that a less stringent standard applies in cases involving benign, rather than invidious, gender discrimination. To read fully in an absolute sense would make the third prong virtually impossible to satisfy and, therefore, an irrelevant addition to the test. For clarification, we note that the cases refer to each part of this three-part test as a prong or a benchmark. Prong one is also called the substantial proportionality test.. Pub.L. Nor do the regulations require institutions to field gender-integrated teams: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.Id.Whether or not the institution maintains gender-segregated teams, it must provide gender-blind equality of opportunity to its student body. Cohen II, 991 F.2d at 896. The same could be said of any individual sport, including golf, track and field, cycling, fencing, archery, and so on. 845, 848-49, 78 L.Ed.2d 663 (1984) (instructing appellate courts to ignore errors that do not affect the essential fairness of the trial). Indeed, the plan is replete with argumentative statements more appropriate for an appellate brief. (internal quotation marks and citation omitted). Cohen II's assumption that a regulation slanted in favor of women would be permissible, Cohen II 991 F.2d at 901, and by implication that the same regulation would be impermissible if it favored men, was based on Metro Broadcasting, which held that benign race-based action by the federal government was subject to a lower standard than non-remedial race-based action. Therefore, like other cases of statutory interpretation, we should review the district court's reading de novo. Compare Virginia, 518U.S. 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. To the extent that Brown assumes that Croson governs the issue of the sufficiency of the factual predicate required to uphold a federally mandated, benign race- or gender-based classification, that assumption is also unfounded. 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. 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. As the prior panel recognized, while the question of full and effective accommodation of athletics interests and abilities is potentially a complicated issue where plaintiffs seek to create a new team or to elevate to varsity status a team that has never competed at the varsity level, no such difficulty is presented here, where plaintiffs seek to reinstate what were successful university-funded teams right up until the moment the teams were demoted.16 Cohen II, 991 F.2d at 904; see also Cohen I, 809 F.Supp. at 1193-94. 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. . Appellee's Br. 978 (D.R.I. For this reason, and because recruitment of interested athletes is at the discretion of the institution, there is a risk that the institution will recruit only enough women to fill positions in a program that already under represents women, and that the smaller size of the women's program will have the effect of discouraging women's participation. 13. Id. Court records for this case are available from U.S. Court Of Appeals, First Circuit. [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. See Cannon, 441 U.S. at 694, 99 S.Ct. (original emphasis omitted). Cf. Brown contends that an athletics program equally accommodates both genders and complies with Title IX if it accommodates the relative interests and abilities of its male and female students. (We note that the text of the 1990 Investigator's Manual cited herein at page 25 was apparently at page 27 of the copy of the Manual before the district court.). 106.41(b). Junior varsity squads, by definition, do not meet this criterion. Cohen v. Brown University. Majority Opinion at 163. at 11. Under intermediate scrutiny, the burden of demonstrating an exceedingly persuasive justification for a government-imposed, gender-conscious classification is met by showing that the classification serves important governmental objectives, and that the means employed are substantially related to the achievement of those objectives. at 2777 (recognizing that the authority of a federal court to incorporate racial criteria into a remedial decree also extends to statutory violations and that, where federal anti-discrimination laws have been violated, race-conscious remedies may be appropriate); Weber, 443 U.S. at 197, 99 S.Ct. Since Cohen II, however, Metro Broadcasting has been overruled, at least in part. And if compliance with Title IX is to be measured through this sort of analysis, it is only practical that schools be given some clear way to establish that they have satisfied the requirements of the statute. Applying that test, it is clear that the district court's remedial order passes constitutional muster. The school argues women are less interested in sports than men. Request Update Get E-Mail Alerts : Text: Citations (268) Cited By (1) UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT No. 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. Before proceeding to the analysis, however, we must first address Brown's challenge to the standard of review. [W]hereas Title VII is largely peremptory, Title IX is largely aspirational, and thus, a loosely laced buskin. Id. 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. at 1771. at 1196. Thus, we have not construed the doctrine as an inflexible straitjacket that invariably requires rigid compliance. Northeast Utils. 106.1-106.71. It is obvious that Brown's plan was addressed to this court, rather than to offering a workable solution to a difficult problem. ), aff'd, 7 F.3d 332 (3d Cir.1993). Id. Thus, the analytical result would be same, even if this were an affirmative action case. Thus, Title IX and Title VI share the same constitutional underpinnings. See Williams v. School Dist. We cannot pretend that an interpretation of a statute that contains explicit categorization according to gender and that has intentional gender-conscious effect does not represent gender-based government action. 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. This policy is comparable to prong one of the three prong test and is, without a doubt, a quota. at 906-07. Thus, at the heart of this litigation is the question whether Title IX permits Brown to deny its female students equal opportunity to participate in sports, based upon its unproven assertion that the district court's finding of a significant disparity in athletics opportunities for male and female students reflects, not discrimination in Brown's intercollegiate athletics program, but a lack of interest on the part of its female students that is unrelated to a lack of opportunities. The Metro Broadcasting Court applied intermediate scrutiny, notwithstanding that the previous year, in Croson, 488 U.S. 469, 109 S.Ct. at 541). at 896-97; and that, [b]ecause the agency's rendition stands upon a plausible, if not inevitable, reading of Title IX, we are obligated to enforce the regulation according to its tenor, id. As previously noted, Title IX itself specifies only that the statute shall not be interpreted to require gender-based preferential or disparate treatment. at 27. at 64-66, 71-73, 112 S.Ct. Despite the fact that it presents substantially the same legal arguments in this appeal as were raised and decided in the prior appeal, Brown asserts that there is no impediment to this court's plenary review of these decided issues. 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. IA, respectively, are co-counsel for the plaintiff class in Cohen v. Brown University, along with Lynette Labinger of . Cohen v. Brown Univ., 879 F.Supp. 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. In the spring of 1991, Brown announced that it, like many other schools, was in a financial bind, and that, as a belt-tightening measure, it planned to drop four sports from its . Idk. at 2112; see also United States v. Virginia, 518U.S. 938, 130 L.Ed.2d 883 (1995); Favia v. Indiana Univ. Accordingly, the Court has taken the position that voluntary affirmative action plans cannot be constitutionally justified absent a particularized factual predicate demonstrating the existence of identified discrimination, see Croson, 488 U.S. at 500-06, 109 S.Ct. In our view, it is Brown's relative interests approach to the three-part test, rather than the district court's interpretation, that contravenes the language and purpose of the test and of the statute itself. It is also worthwhile to note that to fully accommodate the interests and abilities of the underrepresented sex is an extraordinarily high-perhaps impossibly so-requirement. 3. at 15, because the urged interpretation is illogical, conflicts with the Constitution, the Statute, the Regulation, other Agency materials and practices, existing analogous caselaw and, in addition, is bad policy, id. Finally, the tremendous growth in women's participation in sports since Title IX was enacted disproves Brown's argument that women are less interested in sports for reasons unrelated to lack of opportunity. However, in Kelley, the Seventh Circuit, unlike the district court, did not use the three-prong test as a definitive test for liability. 106.41, deserves controlling weight, 991 F.2d at 895; that the Policy Interpretation warrants substantial deference, id. For simplicity, we treat DED as the promulgating agency. Accordingly, we remand the case to the district court so that Brown can submit a further plan for its consideration. 1993) (hereinafter Moore). Under the Policy Interpretation,Institutions may determine the athletic interests and abilities of students by nondiscriminatory methods of their choosing provided:a. at ----, 116 S.Ct. Brown's interpretation conflates prongs one and three and distorts the three-part test by reducing it to an abstract, mechanical determination of strict numerical proportionality. In 2018, the defendant established a . 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. 1764, 36 L.Ed.2d 583, and Croson, 488 U.S. 469, 109 S.Ct. 1549, 1554-55, 71 L.Ed.2d 770 (1982); Craig v. Boren, 429 U.S. 190, 197, 97 S.Ct. Id. Brown argues that the district court's interpretation of the three-part test requires numerical proportionality, thus imposing a gender-based quota scheme in contravention of the statute. In its introduction, Brown makes clear that it would prefer to maintain its current program and that the plan submitted. The Court's 7-1 decision established the "separate but equal" doctrine. 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). 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.). The majority quotes approvingly from Cohen v. Brown Univ., 879 F.Supp. Cohen III, 879 F.Supp. Id. 1053, 94 L.Ed.2d 203 (1987) (upholding a one-black-for-one-white promotion requirement ordered by a district court as an interim measure in response to proven discrimination by a state employer); Local 28 ofSheet Metal Workers v. EEOC, 478 U.S. 421, 106 S.Ct. In United States v. Virginia, 518 U.S. 515, 116 S.Ct. 706, 102 L.Ed.2d 854, Brown concludes that strict scrutiny applies to gender-based classifications.21 Appellant's Br. Brown's argument that the Supreme Court's recent decision in Adarand Constr., Inc. v. Pena, 515 U.S. 200, 115 S.Ct. 2733, 57 L.Ed.2d 750 (1978) (opinion of Powell, J.)). 2581, 135 L.Ed.2d 1095 (1996).27, The majority claims that neither the Policy Interpretation nor the district court's interpretation of it, mandates statistical balancing. Majority Opinion at 175. Law School Case Brief; Cohen v. Brown Univ. at 725-28, because [s]ocietal discrimination, without more, is too amorphous a basis for imposing a racially classified remedy, Wygant, 476 U.S. at 276, 106 S.Ct. 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). While affirmative action may have different connotations as a matter of politics, as a matter of law, its meaning is more circumscribed. The Court has been especially critical of the use of statistical evidence offered to prove generalized, stereotypical notions about men and women. Brown . We emphasize that, on the facts of this case, Brown's lack-of-interest arguments are of no consequence. (quoting the Policy Interpretation, 44 Fed.Reg. We hold that the district court did not err in the degree of deference it accorded the regulation and the relevant agency pronouncements. 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. 9. Early in the opinion, the majority approvingly cites to the statistical evaluations conducted in Cohen I, Cohen II, and Cohen III. In the first appeal, this court rejected Brown's Fifth Amendment equal protection challenge to the statutory scheme. Id. at ----, 116 S.Ct. 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