Legal Opinion
Barbara Jackson v. Harvard University
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 9, 1990No. 89-1931PublishedCited by 104 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
In 1983, Harvard University (Harvard or the University) declined to offer tenure at its Graduate School of Business Administration (the Business School) to plaintiff-appellant Barbara Jackson. Jackson sued under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e through 2000e-17 (1982), charging gender-based discrimination. She named as defendants both the University and the dean of the Business School, John McArthur. After a bench trial, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled against her. Jackson v. Harvard Univ., 721 F.Supp.…
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