Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Education

Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Education
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 30, 2004 Decided March 29, 2005
Full case name	Roderick Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Education
Docket no.	02-1672
Citations	544 U.S. 167 (more) 125 S. Ct. 1497; 161 L. Ed. 2d 361
Case history
Prior	Jackson v. Birmingham Bd. of Educ., 309 F.3d 1333 (11th Cir. 2002); cert. granted, 542 U.S. 903 (2004).
Subsequent	Jackson v. Birmingham Bd. of Educ., 416 F.3d 1280 (11th Cir. 2005)
Holding
Retaliation against a person because that person has complained of sex discrimination is a form of intentional sex discrimination encompassed by Title IX's private right of action
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinions
Majority	O'Connor, joined by Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer
Dissent	Thomas, joined by Rehnquist, Scalia, Kennedy
Laws applied
Title IX, 20 U.S.C. § 1681(a).

Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Education, 544 U.S. 167 (2005), is a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that retaliation against a person because that person has complained of sex discrimination is a form of intentional sex discrimination encompassed by Title IX.^[1]