Administrator's 'Fired for Being Gay' Claim Rejected

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A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of the University of Minnesota, which faced claims of discrimination after an openly gay athletics administrator at the University of Minnesota Duluth was fired in 2014.

In its opinion issued last week, a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at St. Louis held that Jen Banford, who was hired as the head coach of the UMD women’s softball team in 2005 and also became the director of operations for the women’s hockey team in 2009, could not provide direct evidence of discrimination.

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