Appeals Court: School Must Install Female Plaintiff as Boy’s Coach

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a jury’s decision to award damages to a female basketball coach, who had claimed that a school district discriminated against her on the basis of her gender when it hired a male to coach of the district’s boys’ varsity basketball team.   Just as significantly, the appeals court affirmed the trial court judge’s decision to force the school district to install her as the current and future boys’ basketball coach.   The dispute