Court Dismisses Title IX Lawsuit to Over University’s Cutting Women’s Ice Hockey Program

By Patrick L. Egan, of Jackson Lewis   The federal district court in North Dakota has dismissed a lawsuit filed by 11 former members of the University of North Dakota’s women’s ice hockey team who alleged the University violated Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 when it discontinued the women’s ice hockey program. Berndsen et al. v. North Dakota Univ. System, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 102292, 2019 WL 2526180 (D.N.D. June 19, 2019).   The court ruled that the plaintiffs