Jury Trial Will Proceed on White Male Professors' Pay

A federal appeals-court panel ruled in December that 40 white male faculty members at Northern Arizona University have the right to a jury trial to decide whether the university discriminated against them by giving raises to female and minority professors but not to them.

The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found that the pay-equity plan, developed by the university's former president, Eugene Hughes, did not unnecessarily hamper the rights of those

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