Lyon v. Temple University of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SHAPIRO, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, male professors at Temple University (“Temple”), allege that Temple, university president Marvin Wachman, 1 and the American Association of University Professors (“AAUP”) have jointly and willfully discriminated against them on the basis of sex by paying them lower salaries than those paid to female professors of less or equal educational qualifications and/or experience. Plaintiffs originally charged defendants with violations of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, 29 U.S.C. § 206(d); the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1871, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983,…