The Supreme Court of the United States will consider whether a former Georgia Tech head women’s basketball coach and a former Augusta University art professor may bring employment-based sex discrimination claims under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972—a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs and activities, but is not typically utilized in the employment discrimination context.

• The Supreme Court will determine if employees at federally funded educational institutions can bring sex-discrimination in employment claims under Title IX.
• The petitioners asked the high court to review an Eleventh Circuit decision, holding that Title IX does not provide a private right of action for employment-related sex discrimination.
• Petitioners argued that there is a “lopsided” 8–3 circuit split on the issue.

On May 18, 2026, the Supreme Court granted a joint petition for a writ of certiorari in Crowther v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, No. 25–183. The case could answer whether employees of colleges, universities, and other federally funded educational institutions can use Title IX as a vehicle for workplace claims of sex discrimination, or whether such claims may only be brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The question is significant because Title IX, which generally prohibits sex-based discrimination in the educational setting, and Title VII, which generally prohibits sex...

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