United States Ninth Circuit

In a suit alleging that a university prevented the plaintiff from completing a Ph.D. program in retaliation for having complained of gender-based institutional bias, and gender discrimination by her faculty dissertation committee chair, the district court's grant of summary judgment to the university is reversed and the case remanded, where: 1) the Title VII framework for deciding retaliation claims is applicable to retaliation claims under Title IX; 2) the plaintiff established a prima facie case of retaliation; and 3) the plaintiff's evidence was sufficient to show that the university's claimed nonretaliatory reasons for the adverse action were pretextual.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/21/2012
• Published 03/21/2012

Judges

• Gould

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David Force, Denise Gale Fjordbeck