LIPSETT v. UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO

Civ. No. 83-1516 (JP).

745 F.Supp. 793 (1990)

Annabelle LIPSETT, Plaintiff, v. UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO; Pedro Juan Santiago Borrero, individually and in his capacity as Dean of the School of Medicine of the University of Puerto Rico; Jose R. Gonzalez Inclan, individually and in his capacity as Acting Director of the Department of Surgery and as Acting Director of the Surgery Residency Training Program; Gumersindo Blanco, individually and in his capacity as Director of the Department of Surgery and Chairman of the University of Puerto Rico and Affiliated Hospitals Residency Training Program, Ernesto Rivé Mora, individually and in his capacity as Director of the Training Program of the San Juan Veterans Administration Hospital, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Puerto Rico.

September 24, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles S. Hey Maestre, José Antonio Lugo, Judith Berkan, Río Piedras, P.R., for plaintiff.

Isabel Muñoz Acosta, Asst. U.S. Atty., Hato Rey, P.R., for co-defendant Ernesto Rivé Mora.

Rubén Nigaglioni, James D. Noel, III, Ledesma, Palou & Miranda, Hato Rey, P.R., for co-defendant University of P.R., et al.


OPINION AND ORDER

PIERAS, District Judge.

The Court has before it the University of Puerto Rico's (UPR) Motion for Summary Judgment. Defendant claims that Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 ("Title IX"), 20 U.S.C. §§ 1681-1688, does not provide a private cause of action for damages against it because of sovereign immunity. Plaintiff has opposed this motion, arguing that Title IX provides her with a private cause of action for damages...

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