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.
To best understand how to appeal a Title IX case in Massachusetts, it's good to have a brief understanding of what Title IX is. Title IX is a federal civil rights law that's intended in part to prevent and address campus sexual misconduct. At colleges and universities in Massachusetts, if a party, be it the accused party, the responded, or the accuser, the complainant because if the appeal right is allowed to one party, it's allowed to both. But if the party is seeking an appeal, they'd have to meet the particular school's appealable grounds, be it procedural error or defect, disproportionate sanction, new evidence. The appeal itself, you'd have to follow the other schools provisions in terms of what needs to be done. The appeal, it's very important that it be as strong and as effective as possible. One of the most important considerations when appealing a Title IX case in Massachusetts is to make sure that the appealing party has the help of an experienced attorney advisor.
