Appeals Panel Lifts Deadline on EMU Softball Reboot

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A three-judge appeals panel has ruled that Eastern Michigan University does not need to honor a lower court's order to hire a women's softball coach by April 1 in the interest of restarting the program in the fall, according to the Detroit Free Press.

The panel, representing the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, was compelled to lift the hiring deadline after EMU argued reinstating softball this year to shore up Title IX disparities within its athletic department would cause the department fiscal harm. Moreover, costs inflicted by the reinstatement timeline wouldn't even benefit remaining softball players on campus, whose scholarships are nonetheless being honored. "No one challenges the budgetary challenges facing the university," the panel wrote, "and no one doubts they animated the university’s choices."

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