• Biediger v. Quinnipiac University, 10-3302-cv

    Publication Date: 2012-08-09
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Winter, Raggi, and Chin, C.JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs-Appellees: Kristen Galles, Jonathan B. Orleans, Alex V. Hernandez, Pullman & Comley, LLC, Bridgeport, Connecticut; David McGuire, Sandra J. Staub, ACLU Foundation of Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut; Lenora M. Lapidus, Galen Sherwin, Women's Rights Project, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, New York, on the brief, Equity Legal, Alexandria, Virginia. For Amicus Curiae United States of America, in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees: Dennis J. Dimsey, Holly A. Thomas, Attorneys, Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section, Washington, D.C. For Amici Curiae National Women's Law Center; American Association of University Women; Asian American Justice Center; Business and Professional Women's Foundation; California Women's Law Center; Connecticut Women's Education and Legal Fund; Feminist Majority Foundation; Legal Aid Society — Employment Law Center; Legal Voice; National Association for Girls and Women in Sport; National Association of Commissions for Women; National Association of Social Workers, National and Connecticut Chapter; National Council of Jewish Women; National Council of La Raza; National Education Association; National Partnership for Women & Families; Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law; Southwest Women's Law Center; Women's Law Center of Maryland; Women's Law Project; and Women's Sports Foundation, in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees: Lauren B. Fletcher, Craig E. Davis, Jasmine S. McGhee, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Boston, Massachusetts; Fatima Goss Graves, Dina R. Lassow, Neena K. Chaudhry, National Women's Law Center, Washington, D.C.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellant: Edward A. Brill (Susan D. Friedfel, Rebecca L. Berkebile, on the brief), Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, NY. For Amicus Curiae Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund, Inc., in support of Defendant-Appellant: Lawrence J. Joseph, Esq., Washington, D.C. *1

    Case Number: 10-3302-cv

    Cite as: Biediger v. Quinnipiac University, 10-3302-cv, NYLJ 1202566595593, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided August 7, 2012)Before: Winter, Raggi, and Chin, C

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