5 Things to Know About Betsy DeVos, Barack Obama, and Campus Rape

By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Equal Means Equal Lawsuit

The Education Department's rescinding of the Obama Era standards are not without their critics, as a lawsuit was filed earlier this month by the group Equal Means Equal and three anonymous female plaintiffs identified as having ongoing Office of Civil Rights litigation or investigations.

Filed in District Court, the suit denounces "the DeVos rules" as, among other things, "unconstitutional," a violation of Massachusetts state law, and against federal Title IX standards.

"The DeVos rules violate Title IX by permitting schools to apply a burden of proof more onerous than preponderance of the evidence to determine whether a sex-based civil rights harm occurred," reads the suit.

"The DeVos rules do not permit schools to apply a burden of proof more onerous than preponderance to determine whether civil rights harms occurred on the basis of other protected class categories, such as race and national origin."