Two lesbian former women’s sports coaches again failed to show the University of Minnesota-Duluth discriminated against them because of their sex, despite an intervening change in federal LGBT bias law, the District of Minnesota ruled Thursday.
Jen Banford and Annette Wiles’ Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights suit was back before the court on remand from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
The two women originally sued together with Shannon Miller, the university’s former five-time NCAA national championship-winning women’s hockey coach. But their claims were dismissed, in part because Title VII at the time wasn’t interpreted…
