Hawaii District Court Says High School Athletes’ Title IX Claims May Proceed under ‘Controlling Authority’ Theory

By Doriyon Glass, of Jackson Lewis   Denying a high school athletic association’s motion to dismiss a complaint alleging violations of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, a federal district court has held, “the Plaintiffs have provided sufficient factual matter to plausibly allege that the [Oahu Interscholastic Association] may be subject to the anti-discrimination provisions of Title IX under a ‘controlling authority’ theory.”   In A.B. v. Hawaii State Department o