Athletic Official Rebuffed Again, Employment Claim Dismissed

The Supreme Court of North Dakota has affirmed a lower court ruling that North Dakota State University’s former sports information director “could not prove NDSU intentionally discriminated against him on the basis of age in violation of the Human Rights Act” after NDSU’s staff personnel board found that he was “properly terminated for cause.”   Plaintiff George A. Ellis had appealed from the district court's judgment entered in August 2009, which dismissed his complaint with pr