Healthcare organizations increasingly rely on digital tools to engage patients, streamline intake, and improve care coordination. At the same time, regulators are closely scrutinizing whether online interfaces, consent mechanisms, and patient-facing technologies improperly influence or manipulate patient choices through so-called “dark patterns.”

In a powerful new opinion, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court’s order granting Princeton University’s motion to dismiss Title IX and related claims brought by a male student who was suspended for two years for alleged physical (not sexual) assault of two women.