COVINGTON v. SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY

No. 86-1445.

816 F.2d 317 (1987)

Patricia COVINGTON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 9, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Bisbee, Macomb, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

Don E. Prosser, Gilbert, Kimmel, Huffman & Prosser, Ltd., Carbondale, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before CUMMINGS and CUDAHY, Circuit Judges, and MAROVITZ, Senior District Judge.


CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.

Patricia Covington, an assistant professor of art at Southern Illinois University's Carbondale campus ("SIU"), sued the university under Title VII, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq. (1982), and the Equal Pay Act (the "EPA"), 29 U.S.C. § 206(d) (1982), claiming that SIU discriminated against her on the basis of sex by paying her less than her male predecessor for performing the same work.1 After a bench trial...

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