Word: suits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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October 30, 1987: Dalton files a gender discrimination suit in Massachusetts court against the Law School, saying she would withdraw it if the review proved favorable. Dalton says she initiated the legal action to protect her right to sue, since state law requires that gender discrimination suits must be filed within six months of the alleged discriminatory...
...decision concludes a bitter three-year tenure dispute, which had pitted vocal camps at the Law School against each other and which may now result in a gender discrimination suit against the University...
Dalton said after hearing of the decision that she had not yet decided whether to follow through on a gender discrimination suit she filed against the University in November. "We are considering our options. Obviously litigation remains a strong possibility," she said yesterday...
...Dalton were to continue her case, it would be the second active gender discrimination suit against the University. Former Business School professor Barbara Bund Jackson is currently suing the University on similar gender discrimination charges. A federal judge last week cleared the way for Jackson's tenure suit to go to trial...
...much as Schkolnick's complaint is admirable--as is the founding of an organization commited to her effort known as Stop Withholding Access Today (SWAT)--access for women to the clubs is only the first step towards undermining the clubs' entire existence. Her suit attacks the clubs at their most vulnerable point, but their problem is not limited to sexism. The clubs have a long history of racism against Blacks and Jews. The Porcellian club admitted its first Black member only four years...