Longtime Pittsburgh tax law professor William Brown, 73, filed suit on Aug. 24 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, claiming that the law school passed him over for a tenured position in favor of someone 40 years younger.
“I think it’s a strong case,” said Brown’s attorney, Samuel Cordes. “They’re not going to be able to objectively offer a reason that he was let go, other than that he was getting old. There’s this feeling that they just didn’t want an older person on their tenure track.”
