Brown Ordered to Release Records on Demoting Women’s Teams
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Brown University was ordered to submit all documents related to its decision to demote five varsity women’s teams to club status this spring by the judge overseeing a newly reopened lawsuit against the Ivy League school over gender parity in sports.
U.S. District Judge John McConnell in Rhode Island Monday denied Brown’s request for a protective order covering some of the communications relating to its move. Civil rights groups say the recent team demotions violated a 1998 settlement in which the university agreed that each gender’s representation in its athletic program would be within 2.25% of its share of the undergraduate population.