Will Baylor Succeed in Dismissal of Title IX Claim?

Baylor University, the world’s largest Baptist college, faces further upheaval and complications with regards to a Title IX claim filed in March 2016. Jasmin Hernandez had enrolled at Baylor when a former football player, Tevin Elliott, raped her at an off-campus party in 2012. In 2014, the court convicted Elliott of two counts of sexual assault and sentenced him to twenty years in prison.

In March 2016, Hernandez filed her Title IX lawsuit against Baylor, the former athletic director, Ian McCaw, and head football coach, …

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