Eleventh Circuit Denies Full Review of Title IX Job Bias Claims

Former Georgia university employees won’t get a full appeals court rehearing of their sex bias claims, leaving in place an earlier ruling that Title IX of a federal education law doesn’t give school staff the right to sue over workplace discrimination.

The majority of the 12 active-service judges at the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit denied a request Tuesday to rehear a pair of related cases en banc—those of former Georgia Tech basketball coach MaChelle Joseph and former Augusta University art professor Thomas Crowther.

Chief Judge William H. Pryor Jr., in explaining his opposition to a rehearing, ...