Second Circuit Delivers Mixed Verdict to Hofstra on Team Manager’s Harassment Claim

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has granted some relief to a female graduate assistant at Hofstra University, whose claim of sexual harassment, retaliation and Title IX violations was dismissed by a district court.   While allowing the lower court’s decision to grant the defendants’ motion to dismiss the claim for retaliation to stand, the panel found that the court “erred” in its conclusions on the other claims.   In the summer of 2006, plaintiff Lauren Summa began datin