Legal Opinion
Marketa Wills v. Brown University
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 11, 1999No. 98-1701PublishedCited by 121 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.
This appeal involves a lawsuit seeking damages for sexual harassment brought in the district court by the plaintiff, Marketa Wills, against Brown University and one of its former teachers, Professor Kayode Adesogan. The principal issues on appeal, but not the only ones, involve Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq. The background events and the proceedings in the district court are as follows.
Adesogan, a chemistry professor at a Nigerian university, taught as a visiting professor at Brown between 1991 and 1994. In the fall semester of…
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