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Women Wrestlers Grapple with UC Regents’ Title IX ViolationThe Sturdevant Law Firm has joined on as counsel in Mansourian, et al. v. Regents of the University of California, et al., a Title IX class action case brought on behalf of University of California at Davis (UCD) women wrestlers.
The Sturdevant Law Firm has joined on as counsel in Mansourian, et al. v. Regents of the University of California, et al., a Title IX class action case brought on behalf of University of California at Davis (UCD) women wrestlers. Equal Rights Advocates also joins the case as the women’s co-counsel. The women allege that the defendants unlawfully discriminated against them when they withdrew their status as varsity athletes in 2001. As a result, the women wrestlers were deprived of scholarships and a myriad of varsity benefits, including medical and athletic training services, academic tutoring, insurance, and access to varsity facilities. The women allege that discrimination against women athletes reaches beyond the women’s wrestler team. Defendants have provided more opportunities for intercollegiate athletic participation to men than women at UCD relative to the respective enrollment of each sex. The women seek certification of a proposed class of all current, prospective, and future female students at UCD who are denied (as well as all women who are deterred from enrolling at UCD because they would be denied) an equal opportunity to participate in varsity intercollegiate athletics and/or to receive financial assistance.
Discovery in the case continues, and plaintiffs anticipate several upcoming motions, including a motion for class certification.
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