context: The majority of cases interpreting Title IX, Title VI and section 504 support an expansive reading of the phrase "receiv ing Federal financial assistance." Civil rights statutes such as Title IX generally are entitled to broad interpretation to facilitate their remedial purposes.
citation_a.signal: see also
citation_a.parenthetical: the scope and purpose of Title IX place it within the civil rights enforcement scheme that Congress has created over the past 110 years
citation_a.sentence: See also Cannon, 441 U.S. at 686 n.7, 99 S.Ct. at 1952 n.7 (the scope and purpose of Title IX place it within the civil rights enforcement scheme that Congress has created over the past 110 years).
citation_b.signal: see
citation_b.parenthetical: Title VI to be construed liberally to effectuate its remedial purpose
citation_b.sentence: See, e. g., Griffin v. Breckenridge, 403 U.S. 88, 97, 91 S.Ct. 1790, 1795, 29 L.Ed.2d 338 (1971) (Reconstruction Civil Rights Statutes to be accorded “a sweep as broad as [their] language.”) (citations omitted); United States v. El Camino Community College District, 454 F.Supp. 825 (C.D.Cal.1978), aff’d, 600 F.2d 1258 (9th Cir. 1979), cert. denied, 444 U.S. 1013, 100 S.Ct. 661, 62 L.Ed.2d 642 (1980) (Title VI to be construed liberally to effectuate its remedial purpose).