District News Roundup
A federal appeals court has dismissed a teacher's race-discrimination lawsuit against an Indiana school district and rejected her attempt to retroactively apply the Civil Rights Act of 1991 to her case.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Jan. 21 upheld a federal district judge's dismissal of the teacher's lawsuit against the school district in Indianapolis. The appellate panel reached that decision even though the district judge had based the dismissal on a 1989 U.S. Supreme Court decision that was overturned last year by the Congress's adoption of the new civil-rights law.
In the case, Partee v. Metropolitan School District of Washington Township, Maxine Partee contended, among other things, that she had been denied promotions to various positions...
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