Elaine Pilon v. University of Minnesota and the Regents of the University of Minnesota

ROSS, Circuit Judge.

Elaine Pilón filed this Title VII action against the University of Minnesota alleging that she had been discriminated against on the basis of her sex. The district court 1 granted summary judgment for the university based on a general release signed by Pilón of all claims against the university. Pilón appeals from the grant of summary judgment.

Pilón was a graduate student at the University of Minnesota. In June 1977 she instituted a civil action in Hennepin County District Court against the university and others alleging that she had been discriminated against on the basis…