Legal Opinion
Marpaka v. Hefner
Court of Appeals of Tennessee
Decided October 3, 2008No. M2007-00733-COA-R3-CVPublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court 1
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2Opinion of the Court · KirbyHolly M. Kirby, J.
in which ALAN E. HIGHERS, P.J., W.S., and DAVID R. FARMER, J., joined.
This appeal involves alleged discrimination based on religion and national origin. The plaintiff is a native of India and a practitioner of Hinduism, and is employed as an associate professor at the defendant university. The plaintiff applied for a promotion to full professor. His application for promotion was denied, based on his lack of achievement in either academic research or public service activities. The plaintiff professor filed a lawsuit alleging that the university discriminated against him on the basis of…
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