Equality in Sports (Title IX)

Author & Significant Speeches

Championing Equality: Nancy Hogshead on Title IX


Amicus Brief in Support of Precedent-Setting Litigation:

  1. Author and counsel of record, Amicus Curiae Brief in support of plaintiffs in Ollier v. Sweetwater Union High School District, et al., in the Ninth Circuit, Civil Case No. 07cv714L (WMC), May 22, 2013. Other parties that signed onto the brief were the American Volleyball Coaches Association, Coaching Corps, The Dad Man / Dads and Daughters, the Drake Group, the Feminist Majority Foundation, Girls Inc., Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America, Inc., the National Organization for Women (NOW) Foundation, the National Law Center of Maryland, Inc., and the Women’s Law Project.
  2. Author and counsel of record, Amicus Curiae Brief in support of plaintiffs in Mansourian v. Regents of the University of California, et al., in the Ninth Circuit, Civil Case No. 03-cv-02591-FCD-EFB, February 9, 2009. Other parties that signed onto the brief were the National Association for Girls and Women in Sport (NAGWS), the Feminist Majority Foundation, Northeastern University Center Sport in Society, Dads & Daughters®, and the Sporting Goods Manufacturing Association (SGMA).
  3. Author and counsel of record in the United States Supreme Court, Amicus Curiae Brief in support of the Petitioner Brief, Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Education, Case No. 02-1672 (U.S. 2004). 124 S. Ct. 2834 (U.S. 2004). http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/counsellists/cl544-1a.html Other parties that signed onto the brief were the Myra Sadker Advocates, National Association for Girls and Women in Sport (NAGWS), National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics Administrators (NACWAA), National Consortium of Academics and Sports (NCAS), Northeastern University’s Center for the Study of Sport in Society (CSSS), Dads & Daughters®.
  4. Author, Amicus Brief, Koebke v. Bernardo Heights Country Club, Fourth Appellate District Court of California, Division 1, Case No. GIC 767256 (2003). Amicus brief in support of petitioner, a lesbian golfer seeking golf club family benefits for her partner. Published at: http://www.nclrights.org/cases/pdf/koebke_opinion.pdf.
  5. Declaration in Heather Sue Mercer v. Duke University, 301 F. Supp. 2d 454, 463 (M.D.N.C. 2004) (quoted in district court’s attorney fees’ order in support of Mercer.)

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