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  1. November 07, 2024

    Transgender Athlete Case Can Advance, Conn. Judge Rules

    A Connecticut federal judge has declined a high school athletic association's bid to dismiss challenges by cisgender students to a transgender athlete inclusion policy, ruling that the most recent complaint alleges a "plausible" Title IX disparate treatment claim.

  2. July 26, 2024

    NFL Leads Sports & Betting Cases To Watch For Rest Of 2024

    Significant cases involving major American pro sports organizations have earned extra attention as the second half of 2024 begins, as have cases involving young professional athletes, college recruits and youth sports participants. Still, the NFL remains king with its footprint all over the list of must-follow cases for the rest of the year.

  3. October 08, 2021

    Conn. Schools Tell 2nd Circ. Transgender Athlete Case Is Moot

    Connecticut schools urged the Second Circuit to uphold a lower court's decision backing the state's policy of allowing transgender students to compete in sports based on their gender identity, saying a challenge to the rule is moot because the two transgender girls at the center of the case have graduated.

  4. April 26, 2021

    Judge Dismisses Challenge To Conn. Trans Athletes Policy

    A U.S. District Court judge in Connecticut on Sunday dealt a blow to efforts to stop transgender student athletes from playing on sports teams aligned with their gender identity by dismissing several cisgender girls and their parents' complaint against a state policy that permits such athletic participation.

  5. February 24, 2021

    DOE Pulls U-Turn On Trans-Inclusive Sports Policy

    The Biden administration on Tuesday withdrew a statement of support that former U.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos filed in a lawsuit challenging a Connecticut policy that allows transgender girls to compete on girls' high school sports teams.

  6. July 02, 2020

    5 Sports & Betting Cases To Watch: Midyear Report

    Attorneys are set to tackle a number of lingering legal issues in the second half of the year, such as a reexamination of NCAA rules prohibiting college athletes from earning money and novel, pandemic-created disputes including fans demanding refunds for canceled games.

  7. June 17, 2020

    Judge Refuses To Exit Trans Athlete Suit Over Word Choice

    A Connecticut federal judge said he will not recuse himself from litigation brought by female athletes who oppose transgender athletes' participation in sports, dismissing objections to language he used in the case and saying "objective members of the public" would agree with him.

  8. June 10, 2020

    NCAA Urged To Blackball Idaho Over Trans Athlete Law

    Dozens of advocacy groups and more than 400 college and professional athletes have asked the NCAA to boycott Idaho in 2021, in response to a first-of-its-kind law passed in March that bans transgender girls from playing on girls sports teams.

  9. May 11, 2020

    Judge's Word Choice In Trans Athlete Case Prompts DQ Bid

    A group of high school track runners suing to prevent transgender athletes from competing as girls in Connecticut want to disqualify the federal judge overseeing the case, claiming a recent directive to refer to those athletes as "transgender females" means the judge is irrevocably biased against the plaintiffs.

  10. March 25, 2020

    DOJ Says Trans Athletes Can't Compete As Women

    The U.S. Department of Justice has thrown its support behind a lawsuit challenging Connecticut's policy of allowing transgender athletes to compete as girls in order to comply with Title IX, saying that law only protects against discrimination on the basis of biological sex, not gender identity.