Legal Opinion
E.H. Reise v. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 12, 1992No. 91-3414, 91-3844PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
E.H. Reise, who was graduated in the top 5% of his class from the Law School of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, applied for a position on its faculty. The Law School did not hire him. He believes that his race and sex account for the decision, that in recent years the Law School has been unwilling to consider anyone, no matter how skilled, who is not black, female, or otherwise eligible for preferential treatment. According to Reise, only one of the last thirteen appointments to the faculty has been a white male, and that appointment was made in 1985. The…
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