Legal Opinion
Julia Prewitt Brown v. Trustees of Boston University
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 24, 1990No. 88-1288PublishedCited by 225 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Chief Judge.
Julia Prewitt Brown, an assistant professor of English at Boston University sued in the Massachusetts Superior Court after she was denied tenure by defendants, the Trustees of Boston University (“University”). The University removed the case to the District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Alleging that she had been refused tenure because of her sex, Professor Brown contended that denying her tenure for that reason violated an anti-discrimination clause in the University’s collective bargaining agreement with its faculty. A jury found in her favor on…
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