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No. 25-183 · October Term 2026
Does Title IX give employees of federally funded educational institutions the right to sue for sex discrimination in employment?
MaChelle Joseph served as head women's basketball coach at Georgia Tech from 2003 until her termination in March 2019. Throughout her tenure, she repeatedly complained that the university provided her program with inferior resources compared to the men's basketball team—including smaller facilities, less marketing support, lower staff salaries, and reduced travel budgets. Shortly after she filed a formal internal complaint alleging sex discrimination and retaliation in early 2019, Georgia Tech hired an outside investigator to examine complaints about her coaching conduct, placed her on administrative leave, and fired her weeks later based on the investigator's report finding she had created a harmful environment for players. Thomas Crowther taught art at Augusta University from 2006 until 2021. In Spring 2020, several students complained he had sexually harassed them, triggering a Title IX investigation. Crowther argued the investigation was biased against him as a male respondent—he was denied the identities of his accusers, most of his witnesses went uninterviewed, and he received his first negative performance review in nearly fifteen years while the investigation was still…
From Oyez.