Two former associate professors at Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School have filed a lawsuit alleging that their teaching contracts were not renewed in 2011 because of racial discrimination and retaliation.

Kamina Pinder, an African-American woman, accused the school of a history of giving minority women the least desirable teaching assignments and dissuading them from seeking tenure. Scott Sigman, a white man, claimed he was fired in retaliation for raising concerns about the administration’s handling of personal matters and unfair grading.