Court Clears Way for Coach’s Title IX Suit against ESU

A federal court in Kansas has dealt a significant setback to Emporia State University, which had moved to dismiss a gender discrimination claim brought by a former coach.   Specifically, the district court judge held that the intent with which Congress infused the Equal Pay Act trumps ESU’s governmental immunity argument and that Title IX does in fact “authorize a private cause of action for damages.”   Maxine Mehus became the women's volleyball coach at ESU on August 2, 1988. Ov