Judge approves landmark Title IX settlement: ‘These women have made history’

April 21, 2026

A federal judge has approved a landmark settlement that will pay former female athletes at San Diego State a combined $300,000 in damages after they sued the school and accused it of violating Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sexual discrimination in the workplace.

U.S. District Judge Todd Robinson delivered the order April 20, approving settlement terms that were reached last year, including $1.3 million to be paid by SDSU to the plaintiffs’ attorneys who brought this class-action suit on behalf of the women.

The $300,000 is to be split among a class of 798 former athletes at SDSU, which might not seem like much. But this outcome marks something bigger, plaintiffs attorney Arthur Bryant said. USA TODAY