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Mansourian v. Regents of the University of California, 602 F. Supp. 3d 957 (2010)

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Mansourian v. Regents of the University of California, 602 F. Supp. 3d 957 (2010)
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Mansourian v. Regents of the University of California, 602 F. Supp. 3d 957 (2010)
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2010-02-08

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During the 2000-2001 academic year, UCD eliminated all
women from the wrestling team. After the students protested
to UCD administrators and filed a complaint with the Office
for Civil Rights (OCR),3 UCD agreed to permit women again
to participate in varsity wrestling. Their participation, how-
ever, was conditioned on their ability to beat male wrestlers
in their weight class, using men’s collegiate wrestling rules.
(Prior to their elimination from the team, women wrestlers at
UCD had competed only against other women and used inter-
national freestyle rules.) As a result of the new requirement
that they compete against men under men’s rules, the female
students were unable to participate on the wrestling team and
lost the benefits associated with varsity status, including
scholarships and academic credit.