RAJENDER v. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

Nos. 83-1371, 83-1425.

730 F.2d 1110 (1984)

Shyamala RAJENDER, on behalf of herself and a class of academic non-student employees and applicants at the University of Minnesota, Appellee, v. The UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA and the Regents of the University of Minnesota, Appellants. Shyamala RAJENDER, on behalf of herself and a class of academic non-student employees and applicants at the University of Minnesota, Janet Macey, Yolande Jenny, and Mary Strother (Class Members & Individual Claimants), Appellants, v. The UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA and the Regents of the University of Minnesota, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided March 26, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dorsey & Whitney, Peter S. Hendrixson, Michael J. Wahoske, Stephen S. Dunham, Gen. Counsel, University of Minn., Minneapolis, Minn., for University of Minnesota, et al.

Paul C. Sprenger, Eric L. Olson, Robert L. Shutes, Sprenger, Olson & Shutes, P.A., Minneapolis, Minn., for appellees.

Before ARNOLD and FAGG, Circuit Judges, and NICHOL, Senior District Judge.


ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

After 11 weeks of trial and intense negotiation, a class action charging discrimination on the basis of sex by the University of Minnesota against academic non-student employees was settled. Shyamala Rajender v. University of Minnesota, Civil No. 4-73-435 (D.Minn. Aug. 13, 1980) (consent decree filed). The consent decree provided, among other things, for a $6,000 limit on attorneys' fees that the University would have to pay for class...

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