FISHER v. VASSAR COLLEGE

Nos. 1179, 1303 and 2275, Dockets 94-7737, 94-7785 and 94-9125.

114 F.3d 1332 (1997)

Cynthia J. FISHER, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant, v. VASSAR COLLEGE, Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 7, 1995.

Amended December 14, 1995.

Argued June 5, 1996.

Decided June 5, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eleanor Jackson Piel, New York City (Herma Hill Kay, Berkeley, CA, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant Cynthia Fisher.

Maurice F. Curran, Mount Kisco, NY (James P. Drohan, Daniel Petigrow, Anderson, Banks, Curran & Donoghue, Mount Kisco, NY, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee Vassar College.

(Samuel A. Marcosson, C. Gregory Steward, General Counsel, Gwendolyn Young Reams, Associate General Counsel, Vincent J. Blackwood, Assistant General Counsel, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, DC, for amicus curiae Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.)

Before: NEWMAN, Chief Judge, and KEARSE, WINTER, MINER, MAHONEY, WALKER, McLAUGHLIN, JACOBS, LEVAL, CALABRESI, CABRANES and PARKER, Circuit Judges.


Argued In Banc June 5, 1996.

JACOBS and LEVAL, Circuit Judges, with whom Judges MINER, WALKER, McLAUGHLIN, and PARKER join**:

At the close of a three-week bench trial, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Motley, J.), found that defendant Vassar College ("Vassar") discriminated against plaintiff Cynthia Fisher in denying her tenure as a professor in its biology department. Fisher v. Vassar...

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