Legal Opinion
Colman v. Faucher
District Court, D. Rhode Island
Decided September 11, 2015No. C.A. No. 12-681-M-PASPublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
JOHN J. McCONNELL, JR., District Judge.
Judy B. Colman and her daughter, Had-ley Colman, brought this action1 claiming civil rights violations, all stemming from what Ms. Colman contends was the gender discrimination-motivated failure to hire her as the head coach for the girls’ lacrosse team at Portsmouth High School (PHS), She maintains that the Town of Portsmouth and the individual Defendants, all official actors of the Town,2 intentionally discriminated against her because she is a woman and that in doing so they ran afoul of the Rhode Island Civil Rights Act (RI-CRA)…
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