How do I appeal a Title IX case in Rhode Island?

To best understand how to appeal a Title IX case in Rhode Island, it's good to have a brief understanding of what Title IX is. Title IX is a federal civil rights law, which is intended in part to prevent and address campus sexual misconduct. Sexual misconduct can encompass various forms, be it sexual assault, sexual harassment, sexual violence. At all colleges and universities where Title IX would apply in Rhode Island, which is almost all of them as is universally the case across the United States just because of the nature of Title IX, if a party is found responsible for a Title IX charge or violation, a party has a right to appeal both the finding and the sanction. If the appeal right is provided to one party, the appeal right would be provided to both, so the same would be true of both the respondent and the complainant. New evidence, procedural error or defect, disproportionate sanction, those are common themes for the basis of an appeal. Because of what's at stake and what's involved in a Title IX case, it's important to have the help of an experienced attorney advisor when it becomes necessary to appeal the outcome of a case.