Legal Opinion
Iris I. Varner, and United States of America, Intervenor-Appellee v. Illinois State University
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 13, 1998No. 97-3253PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
[1] This appeal concerns the confluence of two recent, significant Supreme Court decisions, City of Boerne v. Flores, — U.S. —, 117 S.Ct. 2157, 138 L.Ed.2d 624 (1997), and Seminole Tribe v. Florida, 517 U.S. 44, 116 S.Ct. 1114, 134 L.Ed.2d 252 (1996). The plaintiffs represent a class comprised of all tenured or tenure-track female faculty at Illinois State University (“ISU”) from the 1982-83 academic year to the present. In 1995, they filed a complaint against ISU, four of its officials, its Board of Regents, and ten members of the Board (collectively, “the University”).…
2Cases cited51 opinions
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3Cited by34 opinions
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