Legal Opinion
Cannon v. University of Chicago
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 27, 1976No. Nos. 76-1238, 76-1239PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAUER, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff Geraldine Cannon brought this civil rights suit against defendants, the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and various individual officers of the schools, after she was rejected as an applicant for admission to the medical schools. She alleges that she was denied admission because of her age and sex. The trial court dismissed the suit for failure to state a claim upon which relief could be granted. We affirm.
Plaintiff at the time of application was 39 years old with a bachelor’s degree from Trinity College of Deerfield, Illinois. Her medical college…
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