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

MEMORANDUM and ORDER

SHAPIRO, District Judge.

Plaintiffs are male professors at Temple University (“Temple”) who allege that Temple and the American Association of University Professors (“AAUP”) jointly and wilfully discriminated against plaintiffs 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 charge 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, 1985 and 1986; the Pennsylvania Human Relations…