GOSWAMI v. DEPAUL UNIVERSITY

No. 12 C 7167.

8 F.Supp.3d 1019 (2014)

Namita GOSWAMI, Plaintiff, v. DEPAUL UNIVERSITY, Peg Birmingham, and Elizabeth Rottenberg, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

Signed April 4, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stuart David Gordon , Law Offices of Stuart D. Gordon, Carrie Alice Herschman , Karr, Herschman & Eggert LLP, Richard M. Karr , Laura Elizabeth Fahey , Gordon & Karr LLP, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff.

Kerryann Marie Haase , Katherine Lee Goyert , Sarah E. Flotte , Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, Chicago, IL, Amy Schmidt Jones , Michael Best and Friedrich, LLP, Milwaukee, WI, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

Jeffrey Cole, United States Magistrate Judge.

INTRODUCTION

In 2010, Dr. Namita Goswami, applied for tenure in DePaul University's Philosophy Department. Her application was rejected by a majority of the tenured faculty in the Department by a vote of eleven to seven, with one abstention. The majority's rejection "rest[ed] largely on the quality of [Dr. Goswami's] research and what this says about her ability to train doctoral...

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