Showing posts with label University of California Davis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label University of California Davis. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Win for Women Who Wrestled

Inside Higher Ed
February 9, 2010

A federal appeals court on Monday ordered the University of California at Davis to defend itself against sex discrimination charges brought by a group of female former wrestlers at the institution. The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which sided with the former athletes on several fronts, overturned a lower court judge's 2008 opinion.

That judge, Frank Damrell Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, had dismissed a lawsuit brought by several women who had, in 2000, been dropped from the wrestling team and, after bringing a federal complaint, reinstated but ordered to compete against men for spots on the squad.

Full Story: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/02/09/davis