Amy Cohen v. Brown University

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

In this watershed case, defendants-appellants Brown University, Vartan Gregorian, and David Roach appeal from the district court’s issuance of a preliminary injunction ordering Brown to reinstate its women’s gymnastics and volleyball programs to full intercollegiate varsity status pending the resolution of a Title IX claim. 1 See Cohen v. Brown Univ., 809 F.Supp. 978 (D.R.I.1992). After mapping Title IX’s rugged legal terrain and cutting a passable swath through the factual thicket that overspreads the parties’ arguments, we affirm.

I. BROWN ATHLETICS: AN OVERVIEW

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