Fourth Circuit Sides with JMU in Title IX Dispute

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court’s ruling denying a motion for a preliminary injunction, which would have halted the dismantling of several mostly men’s athletic programs at James Madison University until the court could consider a plaintiff’s discrimination claim.   In so ruling, the court found that the district court did not abuse its discretion in concluding that Plaintiff failed to meet the factors established in Blackwelder Furniture Co. v. Seilig