Bailey Glasser’s Title IX team and the women’s club lacrosse team at Florida State University won a major victory against sex discrimination and a history-making settlement today. To avoid a class action lawsuit, FSU agreed to add a varsity women’s lacrosse team, develop a gender equity plan, and bring its intercollegiate athletics program into compliance with Title IX.
Bailey Glasser’s Title IX team obtained a hard-fought pretrial victory in the precedent-setting lawsuit against San Diego State University for discriminating against its female student-athletes. Late Friday afternoon, September 15, 2023, a U.S. District Court judge issued a decision on SDSU’s motion to dismiss, holding that all 17 women suing SDSU can seek damages for being deprived of equal athletic financial aid.
Equal Rights Advocates and 17 other public interest groups have filed an amici brief with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals supporting the Fresno State Title IX appeal by female student-athletes fighting for gender equality for all women athletes at the school.
“SDSU has been cheating its female student-athletes out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in equal athletic financial aid each year… Now, it can be held accountable,” said Arthur Bryant, Bailey Glasser LLP partner and Title IX team leader representing the female athletes in the lawsuit against the university.
Justice marches forward: U.S. District Court Judge Todd W. Robinson held yesterday that the female student-athletes suing San Diego State University (SDSU) for violating Title IX can pursue all three of their claims – for equal athletic financial aid, equal treatment, and retaliation. The decision is the first in the nation to hold that female student-athletes deprived of equal athletic financial aid can sue their schools for damages.
