Federal Court Grants Defendants’ Motion to Exclude Expert Testimony in University of Kentucky Title IX Case

By Elizabeth Bulat Elizabeth Niblock, the plaintiff, sued the University of Kentucky (“UK), the defendants, for not complying with Title IX in a 2020 civil action suit. In 2023, successive to each party’s full briefing and the Court’s Daubert hearing in April 2023, the District Court granted the defendants’ motion to exclude the plaintiff’s expert witness, Dr. Donna Lopiano. After the plaintiff transferred to UK from another institution, she found that UK did not offer a women’