Ex-GW Tennis Player’s Case Timely, NAACP Defense Fund Says

A former George Washington University varsity tennis player’s claims that the school was deliberately indifferent to racial discrimination by coaches and teammates were wrongly dismissed as untimely, the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund told a Federal appeals court in Washington.

The trial court erred when it ruled for the first time that Title VI claims filed in the District of Columbia borrow the one‐year statute of limitations from the D.C. Human Rights Act, rather than the three‐year limitations period from D.C.'s personal‐injury law, the organization said in a friend of the court brief filed in the US Court of ...