Johnson's Trail

After a long battle with the court, the trial is coming to an end.The final arguemnets from both sides present their final arguemnts and are awaiting the decsion from the court.

Pitt's final arguments consisted of demostrating that Sharon Johnson's research was irrelavant and her teaching was uninteresting. Johnson's lawyers described of the chairman has immense infleunce on the decisions that are made and how she was treated differenlty than her male collegaue counterparts.

Final Breif is filed for the Sharon Johnson case.

The case is looking at complaints with Equal Oppurtunity Employment Commision, Title VII and the Civil Rights Act of 1963. An injuction prevoiusly allowed for her to continue to work at Pitt while the case went on.

Johsnon case re-opens after the intial win with the injunction to keep Johnson employed as the trail continues for the time being.

Johnson is asking to be reinstated with tenure as a full professor as well as compensation for the damages to her repuation. NOW has provided her with an attorney, Sylvia Roberts. They are arguing that Johnson has been discriminated due to her sex and the decsion for her tenure application was unfair.