Students

➼ Title IX

• Systemwide Title IX Director Suzanne Taylor’s letter to campuses announcing new Title IX regulations from the U.S. Department of Education

•  Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Student Investigation and Adjudication Framework

➼ Code of Conduct

• Berkeley Campus Code of Conduct

Professors and Staff

➼ Title IX

• Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Policies

• Liz’s Interview with CNN about Title IX Case

➼ Code of Conduct

• Faculty Code of Conduct

• Faculty Disciplinary Procedures (UC Berkeley)

Students

➼ Title IX

• Systemwide Policy Prohibiting Discrimination, Harassment & Retaliation, Sexual Misconduct, Dating & Domestic Violence, & Stalking Against Students & Procedure for Addressing

• Systemwide Sex Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct, Dating and Domestic Violence, and Stalking Policy

➼ Code of Conduct

• Student Conduct Procedures

Professors and Staff

➼ Title IX

• Policy and Procedures; Discrimination, Harassment, Retaliation, Sexual Misconduct, Dating and Domestic Violence, and Stalking against Employees and Third Parties

➼ Conduct of Conduct

• Faculty Code of Conduct

➼ Policy to keep in mind

• Doe v. Allee (California Court of Appeal 2019)

• John Doe v. University of the Sciences (United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit 2020)

➼ Statement

Private schools and universities often maintain that they do not have to conform to Constitutional due process guarantees in discipline and Title IX matters.

We are committed to pursuing fundamental fairness and securing due process for our clients in every case.

These are important arguments that we advance in our cases:

Where a school receives federal funding of any kind, their policies and procedures must be consistent with due process requirements.

In Goss v. Lopez, 419 U.S. 565 (1975), the United States Supreme Court made plain that  when any school seeks to discipline a student the school must adhere to the basic Constitutional mandate of giving the student notice and the right to be heard.

In California, the recent case of Doe v. Allee (2019) applied the notion of fundamental fairness and due process to Title IX investigations and proceedings at USC, a private university.

In the recent case of Doe v. University of the Sciences (2020), the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that a private school was required to offer due process not just because of federal funding but because both its contract and handbook, made a promise of fairness in their procedures.