
The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor did not discriminate or retaliate against a pair of married professors who raised complaints about disparate treatment of their colleagues of color, a jury found following a trial in a local county court. Scott Kurashige, a former director of Asian-American and Pacific Islander studies at Michigan, and Emily Lawsin, a current lecturer there, sued the university several years ago, alleging that they were treated in a hostile manner after trying to expose what they called race- and gender-based discrimination and inequity within their department and throughout the campus.
Mlive reported that the jury rejected all allegations of disparate treatment and racial discrimination, harassment, retaliation, sex discrimination and discrimination based on a disability. The university said it was pleased with the outcome of the trial.