Discrimination

Is your apparently benign code of conduct actual violating the law?  In this recent Federal case from Indiana, a male student successfully sued the school for enforcing a personal appearance policy against boys that was not equally enforced against girls.  Given that the enforcement of the policy disparately impacted the boys rather than the girls, the court found that school violated Title IX and engaged in sex discrimination by only selectively enforcing the “hair length” policy against boys without otherwise providing a legitimate reason for not enforcing the policy against girls.