Title IX Ruling in Jackson Case Breathes New Life into Athletic Director’s Suit

Former Lafayette College Athletic Director Eve Atkinson will get another chance to litigate her discrimination/retaliation claim against her former employer and its president.   The Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed, in part, a lower court’s ruling for Lafayette College, noting that the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Education, 544 U.S. 167, 125, S. Ct. 1497 (2005) means that Title IX’s private right of action “encompasses claims of reta