Title VII suit dismissed against college board
The board of directors of a private nonprofit college in Oklahoma is not a “suable entity” and a discrimination case brought by a former college employee against the institution and its board of directors must be dismissed as against the board itself, a federal District Court in Oklahoma has held. A former employee of Bacone College sued the college and its board for alleged violations of Title VII and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. The college itself was an Oklahoma nonprofit corporation, which is specifically given the right to sue and be sued by the state General Corporation Act. But the board argued that it was not a separate entity and was not suable. The plaintiff argued...
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