Landmark Case Evaluation
Landmark Case Evaluation
Fill in the notes for the landmark case you selected to connect with your topic in the previous lessons. You may use the official court documents for the case and articles written about the case to fill in the required information below.
Basic Information
Title of landmark case (including case number): Title IX
Plaintiff: Senator Javits
Defendant: Federals
Date case argued and decided: June 23, 1972
Judgment Affirmed or Reversed: Affirmed
Case Evaluation
Write three to five complete sentences to respond to each of the following items. Issue/charges being discussed: No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. Concern over how Title IX would affect men's athletics prompted some to look for ways to limit the influence of Title IX, and Senator Bayh spent the next three years keeping watch over HEW to get regulations formulated that. Carried out its legislative intent of eliminating discrimination in higher education on the basis of sex.
Evidence presented during the arguments: An Act to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965, the Vocational Education Act of 1963, the General Education Provisions Act (creating a National Foundation for Postsecondary Education and a National Institute of Education), the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, Public Law 874, Eighty-first Congress, and related Acts, and for other purposes.
Conclusions of the judge/judges: Because Title IX only addresses public and private schools that receive federal funding, several states have enacted similar laws to prohibit discrimination based on sex regardless of whether the school receives federal funding. As of 2008, about a third of the states have done so, including Alaska, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, Nebraska,
Fill in the notes for the landmark case you selected to connect with your topic in the previous lessons. You may use the official court documents for the case and articles written about the case to fill in the required information below.
Basic Information
Title of landmark case (including case number): Title IX
Plaintiff: Senator Javits
Defendant: Federals
Date case argued and decided: June 23, 1972
Judgment Affirmed or Reversed: Affirmed
Case Evaluation
Write three to five complete sentences to respond to each of the following items. Issue/charges being discussed: No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. Concern over how Title IX would affect men's athletics prompted some to look for ways to limit the influence of Title IX, and Senator Bayh spent the next three years keeping watch over HEW to get regulations formulated that. Carried out its legislative intent of eliminating discrimination in higher education on the basis of sex.
Evidence presented during the arguments: An Act to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965, the Vocational Education Act of 1963, the General Education Provisions Act (creating a National Foundation for Postsecondary Education and a National Institute of Education), the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, Public Law 874, Eighty-first Congress, and related Acts, and for other purposes.
Conclusions of the judge/judges: Because Title IX only addresses public and private schools that receive federal funding, several states have enacted similar laws to prohibit discrimination based on sex regardless of whether the school receives federal funding. As of 2008, about a third of the states have done so, including Alaska, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, Nebraska,