LAMPHERE v. BROWN UNIVERSITY

No. 76-1460.

553 F.2d 714 (1977)

Louise LAMPHERE et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. BROWN UNIVERSITY et al., Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided April 25, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jordan Stanzler, Providence, R. I., with whom Abedon, Stanzler, Biener, Skolnik & Lipsey, Providence, R. I., were on motion for summary disposition and memorandum in support thereof, for plaintiffs, appellees.

Laurence S. Fordham, Boston, Mass., with whom J. Harold Flannery, Stephen B. Deutsch, Scott Carson Moriearty, Foley, Hoag & Eliot, Boston, Mass., De Witt T. Kersh, Jr., Richard A. Sherman, and Tillinghast, Collins & Grahm, Providence, R. I., were on memorandum in opposition thereto, for defendants, appellants.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge, and BOWNES, District Judge.


COFFIN, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal by Brown University from a district court decision to certify a class of present, past, and future actual or potential women academic employees in a sex discrimination suit brought by plaintiff Louise Lamphere, an anthropology professor who was denied tenure.1 The district court declined to certify the question of the appropriateness of its action under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b) and we earlier refused...

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