Alabama Student’s Title IX Hazing and Harassment Case Rejected

An Alabama high school student alleging his school district and former football coach violated his civil rights when they failed to protect him from a hazing ritual, lost his case for failing to show the harassment was rooted in his status as a heterosexual male.

The student, identified as only as C.W., claimed former coach Steve Smith and the Piedmont City School District knew about a freshman football hazing ritual called keying, in which older players would stick a key into the anus of the younger student in an attempt to emasculate them. When six teammates tried to haze C.W., ...