Legal Opinion
Mawakana v. Bd. of Trs. of the Univ. of the D.C.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided March 28, 2018No. Civil Action No. 14–2069 (ABJ)PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
AMY BERMAN JACKSON, United States District Judge
Plaintiff Kemit Mawakana1 sued the Board of Trustees of the University of the District of Columbia ("the University") for discrimination and breach of contract after he was denied tenure by the University's David A. Clark School of Law. The University maintains that its decision was based on plaintiffs failure to satisfy the scholarship requirement for tenure, but plaintiff alleges that the denial of his application was actually motivated by racial discrimination, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et…
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- Kemit Mawakana v. Board of Trustees of the University of the District of ColumbiaCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2019