Former North Dakota Attorney General Nick Spaeth won a battle Tuesday in his lawsuit charging several law schools with age discrimination, according to a Washington law blog, BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.
The story was linked Wednesday on the website of the North Dakota Supreme Court.
Spaeth, 62, sued six law schools in July in federal court in the District of Columbia, arguing they rejected his applications for teaching jobs in favor of younger, less-qualified applicants, according to BLT.
On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle denied Georgetown University's law school's motion to dismiss the case, ruling Spaeth had enough of a case to justify moving the suit forward.
According to BLT: "Spaeth accused Georgetown of refusing to grant him an interview and then hiring three younger applicants in areas of law Spaeth was qualified to teach.
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"Spaeth's attorney, Lynne Bernabei of Washington's Bernabei & Wachtel, said in a phone interview this morning that 'we were quite pleased that she recognized that we had pled a serious claim.'"
BLT could not reach Georgetown's attorney for a comment, it reported.
Spaeth applied for jobs at 100 law schools in 2010, received two interviews and no job offers, according to his complaint.
The other five law schools he's suing are at Michigan State, the University of Missouri, University of California's Hastings law college, the University of Iowa and the University of Maryland, according to BLT.
Spaeth was a visiting professor at the Missouri school in 2010-2011, according to the school's website.
One of the state's leading Democrats in the 1980s and Spaeth was attorney general in North Dakota from 1985 to 1992, when he lost in the gubernatorial election to Republican Ed Schafer. He has worked for H&R Block and the Federal Home Loan Bank in recent years.
