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2025, Attorney Carla DiMare represents Co-founder of Def Jam Recordings

2024, Attorney Carla DiMare represents gymnasts against the University of Utah

2023, Attorney Carla DiMare represents members of the community who were blocked, deleted, and censored on public social media by a politician who disagreed with her constituents’ viewpoints, politician twice apologizes, and attorney DiMare gets a great settlement for her clients and the community

Military & State Secrets Privilege--Navigating Discovery when the Government Claims Privilege; Attorney Carla DiMare represented clients in a case involving the Espionage Act.

Carla DiMare settles sexual harassment suit against the City of San Diego and its former Mayor.

San Diego City Council To Settle Filner Lawsuit Brought
By Ex-Marine And Her Caretaker

An article on KPBS.org

Attorney Carla DiMare was lead counsel for Deepak Chopra and wins sexual
harassment jury trial

Carla DiMare helps settle Beach Boys trade name infringement lawsuit.

USD accused in a lawsuit of botching a rape investigation – Los Angeles Times

2020, New Hope For Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse Seeking Justice

By Carla DiMare, Esq. in the ICSA E-Newsletter

Carla DiMare has worked on and settled numerous cases involving "cults."

Carla DiMare, Esq. Gives First Amendment Presentation at San Diego Law Library
An article in The Coast News Group

Carla DiMare has represented numerous students with their Title IX disputes with schools and universities, including sexual assault, rape, drugging, bullying, and discrimination.

New Law Allows Sexual Assault Victims More Time To File Claims

An article in The Coast News Group

Title IX sexual assault cases not conducive to summary judgment

An article in the Daily Journal by Carla DiMare

Carla DiMare settles sexual assault/ecstasy lawsuit.

2016, Attorney DiMare represented student who sued USD over a rape and
drugging under Title IX

2021, Carla DiMare selected as a Power Women of San Diego

Carla DiMare represents author accused of allegedly copying a chart

2024, Attorney Carla DiMare on County of San Diego Law Library Board of
Directors, served as Vice-President of the Board, and President of the Board.

First Amendment & Defamation

Workplace Investigations

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972

Title IX began as a law to help equalize women’s rights in college sports. But the law goes beyond just providing females with athletic opportunities. It touches every aspect of the education system, including how a school responds to sex discrimination, sexual harassment, and how it responds when a female student is drugged or raped.

To succeed on a Title IX claim, the Supreme Court has held that a claim for money damages based on sexual harassment may arise under Title IX only if (1) "an official who at a minimum has authority to address the alleged discrimination and to institute corrective measures on the [funding] recipient's behalf has actual knowledge of discrimination in the recipient's programs and fails adequately to respond," and (2) the inadequate response "amount[s] to deliberate indifference to discrimination." Schools are liable under Title IX for only their own misconduct and not just any type of misconduct. The school must be found to have acted with legal culpability known as deliberate indifference. See Reese v. Jefferson Sch. Dist., 208 F.3d 736, 739 (9th Cir. 2000); Fox v. Pittsburgh State Univ., 257 F. Supp. 3d 1112, 1131-1132 (D.Kan. 2017). A Title IX complaint will often say that the school violated Title IX based upon the victim’s gender by depriving her/him of an equal opportunity to finish their education due to the school’s deliberate indifference, or clearly unreasonable, response to the claim of discrimination or sexual harassment, or bullying.

If you are a victim or have been falsely accused under Title IX, contact an experienced Title IX lawyer and begin to save evidence.