16 Fair empl.prac.cas. 941, 14 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 7524 Louise Lamphere v. Brown University

COFFIN, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal by Brown University from a district court decision to certify a class of present, past, and future actual or potential women academic employees in a sex discrimination suit brought by plaintiff Louise Lamphere, an anthropology professor who was denied tenure. 1 The district court declined to certify the question of the appropriateness of its action under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b) and we earlier refused to grant mandamus. We are now pressed by Brown to plough admittedly new ground in this circuit and accept appellate jurisdiction because of allegedly egregious…