Court Affirms that Officials Weren’t Liable for Student-Athlete’s Rape

The Supreme Court of Alabama has affirmed a lower court’s ruling that a community college and several individual defendants were not liable under Title IX when one of the school’s basketball coaches raped a student athlete.   The incident leading to the litigation occurred in the early morning hours of March 6, 2004, when the 19-year-old plaintiff, identified as J.B., was raped in a motel room by one of her basketball coaches, Boris A. McCord, a long-time acquaintance, after an away gam