Legal Opinion
Robinson v. Howard Univ., Inc.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided November 20, 2018No. Case No. 1:18-cv-00518 (TNM)PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TREVOR N. MCFADDEN, U.S.D.J.
This is a case about a professor's poor choices and the disciplinary actions that followed. Reginald Robinson is a tenured law professor at Howard University. During a lecture on agency law, he distributed a quiz to his class. One of the quiz questions described in graphic detail types of body waxes and the way aestheticians perform them. Mr. Robinson called on two female students to discuss their answers to the question. They later reported that the exchange made them feel uncomfortable and that at least one other student had left the classroom. After…
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