Consolidated Appeal Dismisses Two Separate Title IX Complaints Filed Against University System of Georgia

By Gina McKlveen, Esq. What do a former art professor and a prior head women’s basketball coach have in common? According to a recent decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, the answer is that neither have a private right of action for sex discrimination in employment under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The text of Title IX provides that “[n]o person . . . shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the