The University of California will pay more than $4-million to a former assistant clinical instructor on its Los Angeles campus now that all appeals are concluded regarding a sex-discrimination verdict that the woman won in 2004, the Feminist Daily News Wire reported.
The professor, Janet Conney, had sued the university in a state court in 2003, alleging sexual harassment and retaliation. In July 2004, a jury awarded her $2.95-million in damages, plus more than $500,000 in legal fees. The university appealed to the California Court of Appeal, and a three-judge panel of that court ruled unanimously in Ms. Conney’s favor last September. The State Supreme Court declined to review the case in January.
