Case: Discrimination/Sex Discrimination (D. Ariz.)

A federal district court granted summary judgment to the Arizona Board of Regents on a female non-tenure track assistant professor’s sex discrimination claim under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, finding that she failed to provide sufficient evidence that the university’s legitimate, non-discriminatory reason for not renewing her contract—that her non-renewal would cause the “least harm” to the journalism program—was pretextual, particularly given the “same-actor inference” where the administrator who advocated for her promotion later selected her for non-renewal.

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