GOOD NEWS: SF Court Dismisses Suit Challenging DoED’s Title IX Guidelines

October 4, 2018

A lawsuit by women’s rights advocates challenging the Trump administration’s rollback of federal policies on campus sexual harassment was dismissed Monday by a federal magistrate in San Francisco, who said the new standards can’t be challenged in court because they are only guidelines, with no penalties for violations. U.S. Magistrate Jacqueline Scott Corley said the guidelines were not “final agency action” that can be challenged, because they are not binding. “Voluntarily changing a policy in response to an agency’s nonbinding enforcement guidance is not the same thing as being required to do so by the guidance itself,” U.S. Magistrate Corley said.

sfchronicle By Bob Egelko