A federal appeals panel has upheld a lower court’s ruling that a California school district violated Title IX by providing unequal treatment, benefits and opportunities for high school female athletes, and by unlawfully retaliating against a softball coach.
Three judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found nothing to fault in the July ruling by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California that Sweetwater Union High School District dropped the ball in accommodating the interests and abilities of the girls at Castle Park High School. The panel backed the lower court’s award of summary judgment and injunctive relief to the plaintiffs in the class action Ollier v. Sweetwater.
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