Thus, Brown will fully comply with Title IX by meeting the standards of prong three, without approaching satisfaction of the standards of prong one. Brown claims error in certain evidentiary rulings made during the trial and in the district court's order of specific relief in place of Brown's proposed compliance plan. Ronald D. Rotunda & John E. Nowak, 3 Treatise on Constitutional Law 18.2, at 7-8 (2d ed. 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. Brown and the attorneys representing the plaintiff class in the Cohen v. Brown case have reached a proposed settlement on plaintiffs' June 29 court challenge to Brown's restructuring of its athletics program. 106.37(c) and 106.41(c)]. 44 Fed.Reg. 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. With these precepts in mind, we first examine the compliance plan Brown submitted to the district court in response to its order. See Abbadessa v. Moore Business Forms, Inc., 987 F.2d 18, 22 (1st Cir.1993); EEOC v. Trabucco, 791 F.2d 1, 2 (1st Cir.1986). Whatever may be the merits of adopting strict scrutiny as the standard to be applied to gender-based classifications, it is inappropriate to suggest, as Brown does, that Frontiero compels its application here.Brown's assertion that Adarand obligates this court to apply Croson to its equal protection claim is also incorrect. Cohen II, 991 F.2d at 900-901. See Cohen II, 991 F.2d at 902 (citing Lipsett v. University of P.R., 864 F.2d 881, 897 (1st Cir.1988)); but see Brown v. Hot, Sexy and Safer Prods., Inc., 68 F.3d 525, 540 (1st Cir.1995) (Title VII sexual harassment standards applied to Title IX sexual harassment case in non-employment context), cert. ; see also North Haven, 456 U.S. at 521, 102 S.Ct. at 3338 (In limited circumstances, a gender-based classification favoring one sex can be justified if it intentionally and directly assists members of the sex that is disproportionately burdened.). To the extent that the rate of interest in athletics diverges between men and women at any institution, the district court's interpretation would require that such an institution treat an individual male student's athletic interest and an individual female student's athletic interest completely differently: one student's reasonable interest would have to be met, by law, while meeting the other student's interest would only aggravate the lack of proportionality giving rise to the legal duty. of Educ., 402 U.S. 1, 25, 91 S.Ct. At the preliminary injunction stage, Brown propounded the same relative interests argument under prong three. Majority Opinion at 179 n. 15. 689, 126 L.Ed.2d 656 (1994). In this way, Brown could easily achieve prong three's standard of full and effective accommodation of the underrepresented sex. This remedy would entail upgrading the positions of approximately 40 women. 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. Cohen v. Brown Univ., 879 F.Supp. While acknowledging that Brown has an impressive history of program expansion, the district court found that Brown failed to demonstrate that it has maintained a continuing practice of intercollegiate program expansion for women, the underrepresented sex. Id. Title VI prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin in institutions benefitting from federal funds. See Metro Broadcasting, 497 U.S. at 564, 110 S.Ct. View Cohen v. Brown University. at 907, and makes it virtually impossible to effectuate Congress's intent to eliminate sex discrimination in intercollegiate athletics. This standard, in fact, goes farther than the straightforward quota test of prong one. (c)Equal Opportunity. At FindLaw.com, we pride ourselves on being the number one source of free legal information and resources on the web. Copyright 2023, Thomson Reuters. The Metro Broadcasting Court distinguished Croson, noting that [i]n fact, much of the language and reasoning in Croson reaffirmed the lesson of Fullilove18 that race-conscious classifications adopted by Congress to address racial and ethnic discrimination are subject to a different standard than such classifications prescribed by state and local governments. Metro Broadcasting, 497 U.S. at 565, 110 S.Ct. In response, appellees cite Kelley v. Board of Trustees, 35 F.3d 265 271 (1994), for the proposition that the three-prong test does not constitute a quota, because it does not require any educational institution to grant preferential or disparate treatment to the gender underrepresented in that institution's athletic program. Bob Jones University v. United States; City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, 462 U.S. 416 (1983). 1442, 94 L.Ed.2d 615 (1986) (upholding a temporary program authorizing a county agency to consider sex and race as factors in making promotions in order to achieve a statistically measurable improvement in the representation of women and minorities in major job classifications in which they had been historically underrepresented); Wygant v. Jackson Bd. See Cohen II, 991 F.2d at 893. Prong one, for example, requires that participation opportunities be provided proportionately to enrollment, but does not mandate any absolute number of such opportunities. 1211, 1221-22, 79 L.Ed.2d 516 (1984) (holding that Title IX was program-specific and thus applied only to those university programs that actually receive federal funds and not to the rest of the university), with athletics prominently in mind. Cf. 938, 130 L.Ed.2d 883 (1995); Favia v. Indiana Univ. This motion was filed by the original plaintiffs of Cohen v. This difficulty was recognized in Cohen II, which stated that the mere fact that there are some female students interested in a sport does not ipso facto require the school to provide a varsity team in order to comply with the third benchmark. Cohen II 991 F.2d at 898. Brown contends that we are free to disregard the prior panel's explication of the law in Cohen II. The prior panel, like Brown, assumed without analysis that 1681(b) applies unequivocally to intercollegiate athletics programs. at 2274. Stay up-to-date with how the law affects your life. Amy Cohen v. Brown University, 991 F.2d 888, 1st Cir. In Adarand, the Supreme Court reasoned that it may not always be clear that a so-called preference is in fact benign. Id. 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 at 2274, which requires that [p]arties who seek to defend gender-based government action must demonstrate an exceedingly persuasive justification for that action, id. Cf. The district court found Brown's plan to be fatally flawed for two reasons. (quoting the Policy Interpretation, 44 Fed.Reg. 185 (D.R.I.1995) (Cohen III), to demonstrate the many ways in which a university might achieve compliance: 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. Appellee's Br. at 205. This standard may be practical for certain sports that require large teams, but what of individual sports? Furthermore, such evidence is completely irrelevant where, as here, viable and successful women's varsity teams have been demoted or eliminated. Sch., 503 U.S. 60, 76, 112 S.Ct. at 3026 (emphasis added). In addition, a gender-conscious remedial scheme is constitutionally permissible if it directly protects the interests of the disproportionately burdened gender. See Hogan, 458 U.S. at 728, 102 S.Ct. See Hogan, 458 U.S. at 724 & n. 9, 102 S.Ct. Rather, the Seventh Circuit endorsed the test as one for compliance, in dismissing the plaintiff's claims. 978 (D.R.I. TermsPrivacyDisclaimerCookiesDo Not Sell My Information, Begin typing to search, use arrow keys to navigate, use enter to select, Stay up-to-date with FindLaw's newsletter for legal professionals. The plan focuses only on University-funded sports, ignoring the long history of successful donor-funded student teams. denied, 507 U.S. 1030, 113 S.Ct. 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 any rate, Kelley pre-dates the Supreme Court's opinions in Adarand and Virginia, meaning that it suffers from the same defects as Cohen II. In disputes over the representation of women in athletic programs, it is inevitable that statistical evidence will be relevant. Although Metro Broadcasting explicitly discussed race-conscious rather than gender-conscious classifications, we applied its standard in Cohen II. at ----, 115 S.Ct. Amy Cohen (plaintiff), a member of the . at 55 (citing Desjardins v. Van Buren Community Hosp., 969 F.2d 1280, 1282 (1st Cir.1992)). 5804 (1972) (remarks of Sen. Bayh); North Haven Bd. Rather than respecting the school's right to determine the role athletics will play in the future-including reducing the opportunities available to the formerly overrepresented gender to ensure proportionate opportunities-the district court and the majority demand that the absolute number of opportunities provided to the underrepresented gender be increased. The panel cited as authority Metro Broadcasting, 497 U.S. at 565-66, 110 S.Ct. It is well settled that, where, as here, Congress has expressly delegated to an agency the power to elucidate a specific provision of a statute by regulation, the resulting regulations should be accorded controlling weight unless they are arbitrary, capricious, or manifestly contrary to the statute. Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837, 844, 104 S.Ct. at 2274 (citing J.E.B. The substantial proportionality contained in Benchmark 1 merely establishes such a safe harbor. It can hardly be denied that this prong requires statistical balancing as it is essentially a test that requires the school to show that it is moving in the direction of satisfying the first prong. denied, 510 U.S. 1043, 114 S.Ct. Brown University, as an Ivy League institution, does not grant athletic scholarships to its students. Partially as a consequence of this, participation rates of women are far below those of men.). 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. 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. 2297, 2303, 124 L.Ed.2d 586 (1993)). 2462, 2590-92 (Additional Views); 117 Cong.Rec. The Policy Interpretation was designed specifically for intercollegiate athletics.12 44 Fed.Reg. This prong surely requires statistical balancing. because of football teams. 1993) Key Search Terms: Title IX, cut-backs, college athletics Facts In response to budgeting restrictions and financial problems, Brown University demoted women's volleyball, women's gymnastics, men's golf, and men's water polo to intercollegiate club sports. The same could be said of any individual sport, including golf, track and field, cycling, fencing, archery, and so on. First, we now have a full record before us and a set of well-defined legal questions presented by the appellant. 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. Cohen II held that the Policy Interpretation is entitled to substantial deference because it is the enforcing agency's considered interpretation of the regulation. 991 F.2d at 896-97. 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. at 2113. 1313, 1322, 59 L.Ed.2d 533 (1979). The Cohen II court stated that it was adopting a deferential standard of review, and that if the district court made no clear error of law or fact, we will overturn its calibration only for manifest abuse of discretion. Id. [T]he Court proceeds to interpret exceedingly persuasive justification in a fashion that contradicts the reasoning of Hogan and our other precedents. Id. We think it clear that neither the Title IX framework nor the district court's interpretation of it mandates a gender-based quota scheme. . at ----, 116 S.Ct. 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. 2038, 2048, 132 L.Ed.2d 63 (1995) (acknowledging the constitutional permissibility of court-ordered, race-conscious remedial plans designed to restore victims of discrimination to the positions they would have occupied in the absence of such conduct); Fullilove, 448 U.S. at 483, 100 S.Ct. What is important for our purposes is that the Supreme Court appears to have elevated the test applicable to sex discrimination cases to require an exceedingly persuasive justification. This is evident from the language of both the majority opinion and the dissent in Virginia. See Cohen II, 991 F.2d at 901. 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. On 01/15/2021 Cohen, filed a Civil Right - Other Civil Right court case against Walsh, in U.S. Courts Of Appeals. at 5. Only where the plaintiff meets the burden of proof on these elements and the institution fails to show as an affirmative defense a history and continuing practice of program expansion responsive to the interests and abilities of the underrepresented gender will liability be established. The case is now before us on appeal from the merits and we must review it accordingly. 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. ("Title IX"). As Cohen II recognized, [t]he scope and purpose of Title IX, which merely conditions government grants to educational institutions, are substantially different from those of Title VII, which sets basic employment standards. 991 F.2d at 902 (citation omitted). Thus, the analytical result would be same, even if this were an affirmative action case. Therefore, we review the constitutionality of the district court's order requiring Brown to comply with Title IX by accommodating fully and effectively the athletics interests and abilities of its women students. For the reasons that follow, we conclude that no exception to the law of the case doctrine applies here and, therefore, that Cohen II's rulings of law control the disposition of this appeal. the ratio of women athlete in Brown University in 1991. Croson Co., 488 U.S. 469, 493, 109 S.Ct. Fourth, it is important to recognize that controlling authority does not distinguish between invidious and benign discrimination in the context of gender-based classifications, as it has in the context of racial classifications. 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. 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. 1681(b) as a categorical proscription against consideration of gender parity. Modified Order of May 4, 1995. For simplicity, we treat DED as the promulgating agency. The fact of gender-conscious classification, even with equal enforcement with respect to both genders, requires the application of a higher level of scrutiny than rational basis review. The doctrine of the law of the case directs that a decision of an appellate court on an issue of law, unless vacated or set aside, governs the issue during all subsequent stages of litigation in the nisi prius court and thereafter on any further appeal. Commercial Union Ins. 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 . at 204 (internal quotation marks and citations omitted). Cases and commentators sometimes treat cases involving involuntarily implemented plans-e.g., plans adopted pursuant to a consent decree or a contempt order-as affirmative action cases. Accord Horner, 43 F.3d at 274-75; Kelley, 35 F.3d at 270; Favia v. Indiana Univ. at 456, and the test applied in both Metro Broadcasting and Webster.The phrase exceedingly persuasive justification has been employed routinely by the Supreme Court in applying intermediate scrutiny to gender discrimination claims and is, in effect, a short-hand expression of the well-established test. We assume, without deciding, that Brown has not waived its equal protection claim and has standing to raise it. Here, gender-conscious relief was ordered by an Article III court, constitutionally compelled to have before it litigants with standing to raise the cause of action alleged; for the purpose of providing relief upon a duly adjudicated determination that specific defendants had discriminated against a certified class of women in violation of a federal anti-discrimination statute; based upon findings of fact that were subject to the Federal Rules of Evidence. Brown assigns error to the district court's exclusion of certain evidence pertaining to the relative athletics interests of men and women. 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. Subsequently, after hearing fourteen days of testimony, the district court granted plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction, ordering, inter alia, that the women's gymnastics and volleyball teams be reinstated to university-funded varsity status, and prohibiting Brown from eliminating or reducing the status or funding of any existing women's intercollegiate varsity team until the case was resolved on the merits. THE PLAINTIFF CLASS. The district court noted that there may be other women's club sports with sufficient interest and ability to warrant elevation to varsity status, but that plaintiffs did not introduce at trial substantial evidence demonstrating the existence of other women's club teams meeting the criteria. In rejecting Brown's equal protection claim, the Cohen II panel stated, It is clear that Congress has broad powers under the Fifth Amendment to remedy past discrimination. 991 F.2d at 901. at 3008-09 (holding that benign race-conscious measures mandated by Congress are constitutionally permissible to the extent that they serve important governmental objectives within the power of Congress and are substantially related to achievement of those objectives). 3331, 3336, 73 L.Ed.2d 1090 (1982), with Metro Broadcasting, 497 U.S. at 564-65, 110 S.Ct. Defendant: Brown University Court that made decision on the case: U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island Facts of the Case In the year 1996, Cohen set out a lawsuit against Brown University because she believed that Brown was violating Title IX rules. The district court's definition of athletics participation opportunities comports with the agency's own definition. In Cohen II, a panel of this court squarely rejected Brown's constitutional and statutory challenges to the Policy Interpretation's three-part test, upholding the district court's interpretation of the Title IX framework applicable to intercollegiate athletics, Cohen II, 991 F.2d at 899-902, as well as its grant of a preliminary injunction in favor of the plaintiffs, id. Get Cohen v. Brown University, 991 F.2d 888 (1993), United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, case facts, key issues, and holdings and reasonings online today. 93-380, 88 Stat. 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. 1535, 1557 (D.Ala.1995) (stating that courts must look behind the recitation of a benign purpose to ensure that sex-based classifications redress past discrimination). Cohen III, 879 F.Supp. Read Cohen v. Brown University, 991 F.2d 888, see flags on bad law, and search Casetext's comprehensive legal database All State & Fed. 1845, 123 L.Ed.2d 470 (1993); Lamphere v. Brown Univ., 875 F.2d 916, 922 (1st Cir.1989)). Cohen II, 991 F.2d at 901. The district court held that, because Brown maintains a 13.01% disparity between female participation in intercollegiate athletics and female student enrollment, it cannot gain the protection of prong one. Cohen III, 879 F.Supp. 978, 1001 (D.R.I.1992) (Cohen I). At issue in this appeal is the proper interpretation of the first of these, the so-called three-part test,7 which inquires as follows: (1)Whether intercollegiate level participation opportunities for male and female students are provided in numbers substantially proportionate to their respective enrollments; or, (2)Where the members of one sex have been and are underrepresented among intercollegiate athletes, whether the institution can show a history and continuing practice of program expansion which is demonstrably responsive to the developing interest and abilities of the members of that sex; or. This is a class action lawsuit charging Brown University, its President, and its Athletic Director (collectively "defendants" or "Brown") with discriminating against women in the operation of its intercollegiate athletic program, in violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. This precedent-setting ruling, which set the standard for determining a school's compliance with Title IX in . Second, even assuming such a quota scheme is otherwise constitutional, appellees have not pointed to an exceedingly persuasive justification, see Virginia, 518 U.S. at ----, 116 S.Ct. Cohen II, 991 F.2d at 903. 7261(a)(1). Brown has contended throughout this litigation that the significant disparity in athletics opportunities for men and women at Brown is the result of a gender-based differential in the level of interest in sports and that the district court's application of the three-part test requires universities to provide athletics opportunities for women to an extent that exceeds their relative interests and abilities in sports. If the athletes competing in sports for which the university is permitted to field single-sex teams are excluded from the calculation of participation rates, the proportion of women participants would increase dramatically and prong one might be satisfied. U.S. District Court Chief Judge John McConnell, Jr. approved a stipulated order today in Cohen v.Brown University, the landmark Title IX case, requiring Brown University to pay $1,135,000 for the attorneys' fees and $40,000 for the litigation expenses incurred by the class of women student-athletes who challenged the school's elimination of women's teams from its varsity intercollegiate . 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. No aspect of the Title IX regime at issue in this case-inclusive of the statute, the relevant regulation, and the pertinent agency documents-mandates gender-based preferences or quotas, or specific timetables for implementing numerical goals. 2. Plaintiffs alleged that, at the time of the demotions, the men students at Brown already enjoyed the benefits of a disproportionately large share of both the university resources allocated to athletics and the intercollegiate participation opportunities afforded to student athletes. 497 U.S. at 564-65, 110 S.Ct. Id. 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