Legal Opinion

Ptomey v. Texas Tech University

Texas Court of Appeals, 7th District (Amarillo)

Decided January 20, 2009No. 07-06-0332-CVPublishedCited by 39 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

JAMES T. CAMPBELL, Justice.

Appellant, Dr. Nyla Ptomey, appeals a summary judgment granted in favor of appellee Texas Tech University on each of her claims of unlawful age and sex discrimination and retaliation. Finding by its traditional motion for summary judgment Texas Tech conclusively proved a legitimate, non-discriminatory reason for the adverse employment actions of which Pto-mey complains and that the evidence does not raise a fact issue of pretext, we will affirm.

Background

In 1990, Ptomey assumed the associate director of housing for student services position at Texas Tech. For…

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