Back to Top Back to Top Back to Top Back to Top Back to Top Back to Top Back to Top Back to Top Back to Top Back to Top Back to Top Back to Top Back to Top Back to Top Back to Top		BACK TO 3GF NEWS On November 30, 2004, the National Women's Law Center (the Center) represented plaintiff Roderick Jackson in an important Title IX discrimination case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. Roderick Jackson was fired as the girls' basketball coach by his school in Birmingham, Alabama, when he complained that his team was denied equal funding and equal access to facilities and equipment.  The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals held that Title IX provided no protection from retaliation.  The Center urged the Supreme Court to reverse this holding, and to make it unequivocally clear that retaliation against a girl for asserting her rights -- or retaliation against anyone who speaks up on her behalf -- is impermissible under the law. The Supreme court ruled in Jackson’s favor in April 2005. This decision reaffirms that individuals are protected from punishment when they protest sex discrimination. To learn more about this case, please visit: http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20041105/1a_cover05.art.htm or http://www.nwlc.org/