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Speaker 1: And now it's time for our daily Bloomberg Law Brief,

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Speaker 1: I see dr dot org. Today Bloomberg LA host Student

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Speaker 1: Grasso and Greg Store discuss a New Jersey lawsuit brought

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Speaker 1: against St. Teresa's Catholic School after it expelled a female

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Speaker 1: student who asked to play on the boys basketball team.

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Speaker 1: They speak with Erin Bzovis, director of the Center for

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Speaker 1: Gender and Sexuality Studies at Western New England School of Law.

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Speaker 1: Let's get right to the core question, Aaron, if there

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Speaker 1: are no facilities for a girl to play a sport,

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Speaker 1: should she be allowed to play on the boys team. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's a more complicated question than just yes or no.

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Speaker 1: She goes to a private school. She goes to a

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Speaker 1: private religious school that has the opportunity to insulate itself

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Speaker 1: from civil rights protections by foregoing federal funds and assuming

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Speaker 1: that it has um. She doesn't have the right that

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Speaker 1: a student who attends a public school or school that's

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Speaker 1: receiving federal funds, would have to UM to insist on

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Speaker 1: that right to play and to challenge the retaliatory expulsion

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Speaker 1: that resulted from her case Aaron. Doesn't matter whether UM,

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Speaker 1: there's a religious basis for for having her not beyond

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Speaker 1: the boys team or is it a matter they can't

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Speaker 1: even get in the door UM for this lawsuit if

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Speaker 1: if the school doesn't accept federal funds. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: her her options for for litigating are really limited by

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Speaker 1: the fact that she's challenging a decision by a private school. UM.

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Speaker 1: The fact that it may be a religious objection, or

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Speaker 1: or just or or any other objection, it doesn't really

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Speaker 1: doesn't really matter for the purposes of litigation. Now, I

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Speaker 1: should say that UM, I understand her lawsuit to the

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Speaker 1: one that the judge throughout, and that I believe she's

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Speaker 1: appealing UM to be rooted in a claim under the

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Speaker 1: terms of the State of New Jersey Interscholastic Athletic Association.

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Speaker 1: She's limited to those kinds of claims in the absence

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Speaker 1: of any ability to to bring a claim understay the

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Speaker 1: Constitution's Equal Protection Clause UM and or Title nine by

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Speaker 1: virtue of the fact that this is a private school

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Speaker 1: and that is Erin bezovis director of the Center for

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Speaker 1: Gender and Sexuality Studies at Western New England School of Law,

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Speaker 1: speaking at the Bloombergy Law host doom Grosso and Greg Store.

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