BANERJEE v. BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF SMITH COLLEGE

No. 80-1475.

648 F.2d 61 (1981)

Dibyendu K. BANERJEE, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF SMITH COLLEGE et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided April 21, 1981.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied June 26, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Max D. Stern, Boston, Mass., with whom Stern & Shapiro, Boston, Mass., was on brief, for plaintiff, appellant.

William L. Patton, Boston, Mass., with whom John H. Mason, and Ropes & Gray, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for defendants, appellees.

Jack Greenberg, Charles Stephen Ralston and Gail J. Wright, New York City, on brief for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., amicus curiae.

Leroy D. Clark, Gen. Counsel, Constance L. Dupre, Acting Associate Gen. Counsel, Vincent Blackwood, Asst. Gen. Counsel, and Joel M. Cohn, Washington, D. C., on brief, for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, amicus curiae.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, ALDRICH, Circuit Judge, and McNAUGHT, District Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied June 26, 1981.

ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by an unsuccessful candidate for professorial tenure, Dibyendu K. Banerjee, a Bengali Indian, whose application was finally rejected by the Committee on Tenure and Promotion (T & P) of Smith College in May, 1974. Banerjee thereafter complained to the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...

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