Ex-ULL Coach’s Discrimination Claim Goes to Trial

A Louisiana state appeals court has reversed a trial court’s decision, which had dismissed the discrimination claim of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s former head football coach.   The ruling by the 1st Circuit Court of Appeal means that the claim of Jerry Lee Baldwin, who alleged that former ULL Athletic Director Nelson Schexnayder withheld money, equipment and staff because he did not want an African American as head coach, may go to trial.   Schexnayder and other univ