Black Arizona State Professor Can Advance Discrimination Suit

A Black Arizona State University professor can continue with his claims alleging that the school’s salary practices were unlawfully discriminatory under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, a federal district court said.

Nicholas Alozie can advance a portion of claims in his suit filed in 2023, including claims that the school has underpaid him because of his race, Senior Judge Susan R. Bolton of the US District Court for the District of Arizona said in a Monday nonprecedential order partially denying a motion to dismiss from the Arizona Board of Regents, which governs the state’s public university system, and ...