Female University of Texas Law Professor to Get Equal Pay Trial

The University of Texas must face trial on a female class action law professor’s claim under the Equal Pay Act that she was paid less than a male professor for performing equal work, a federal judge in Austin ruled.

But a jury couldn’t find for Linda Mullenix on her pay-based sex bias claim under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the US District Court for the Western District of Texas said.

Mullenix sued in December 2019. She said she was paid $134,000 less than fellow class action law scholar Robert Bone. That was so even though Bone had ...