Dismissal of Discrimination Suit Denied
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — A federal judge has denied a motion to dismiss a sex and race discrimination case brought by University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown's former affirmative action officer Clea Patrick Hollis, according to The Tribune-Democrat. The lawsuit was filed last year.
The university tried to have the case dismissed "for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction and failure to state claims upon which relief can be granted." That and all other claims were denied by U.S. District Judge D. Brooks Smith.
Both Hollis and the university's affirmative action program "were adversely affected by decisions sanctioned by [President Albert] Etheridge...," Smith said in his decision.
The motion for dismissal also claimed that Ethridge could not be held liable under the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act, and that Hollis "did not exhaust her administrative remedies." But Smith overruled the argument.
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