A divided Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) refused to require some states to enforce new rules on how schools should handle complaints of sexual harassment and discrimination, leaving in place a ban on the provisions while lower-court battles continue.
The Department of Education had asked the court to lift the preliminary injunctions on enforcing the rules, arguing that the decisions by federal courts in Louisiana and Kentucky to block the entirety of Title IX regulations in a number of states were overly broad. States requested the injunctions based on objections to provisions within the regulations that deal with discrimination based on gender identity.
Friday's decision leaves in place a messy status quo, where the regulations are in effect in about half of U.S. states. Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the court's three liberals in dissenting from the emergency order. The 10 states with bans are Ohio, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Idaho, Tennessee, Indiana, Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia.
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