In April of 2024, the Department of Education approved New Title IX rules, which are scheduled to take effect on August 1, 2024. Our firm is closely monitoring ongoing challenges to these new rules in court, and is working hard to provide you the most up-to-date information. Click here to learn about the current state of Title IX and how we can help if you are facing accusations.
The best understand how to appeal a Title IX case in Florida, it's best to have a brief understanding of what Title IX is. Title IX is a federal civil rights law. It's intended in part to prevent and address campus sexual misconduct. If a party finds it necessary to appeal finding responsibility and/or sanction at a school in Florida, college or university, the school itself will have say, articulated grounds for which the appeal can be based.
For example, new evidence, disproportionate sanction, procedural error or defect. There's sometimes other available grounds. And if an appeal is allowed to one party, it's available to both. So for example, if the respondent, the accused can appeal the same right would be true to the accuser or the complainant.
If a party is appealing a Title IX case in Florida, one of the most important considerations is to make sure that they have the help of an experienced attorney adviser to do so.
