User talk:Cfhinkle

I have a question about an entry I recently made, which has been deleted. Under the article for Alabama State University, I added a brief description of a decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, dated September 2, 2013, which affirmed a jury verdict against the Univerwity. The jury had awarded three female ASU employees more than $300,000 each, based on the jury's finding that the three women had experienced a hostile work environment based on their race. (With respect to one of the women, the jury also found that she had experienced a hostile work environment based on her sex.) I included a hyperlink to the Eleventh Circuit's decision:  

The Court's decision is an important one. The opening sentence of the opinion reads as follows: "The facts of this case should greatly concern every taxpaying citizen of the State of Alabama, especially because it involves a public institution largely funded with tax dollars paid by the people of Alabama." The concluding section of the court's opinion reads, in part, that "we are unnerved by the apparent acquiescence to, if not outright condoning of, the abusive work environment created by [ASU's] high-level employees. Such conduct simply has no place in a work environment, especially at a publicly funded university."

Wikipedia has many articles that refer to race sex discrimination in a variety of contexts. The Wikipedia article on Yale University, for example, includes the following paragraph: "A decade into co-education, rampant student assault and harassment by faculty became the impetus for the trailblazing lawsuit Alexander v. Yale. While unsuccessful in the courts, the legal reasoning behind the case changed the landscape of sex discrimination law and resulted in the establishment of Yale's Grievance Board and the Yale Women's Center. In March 2011 a Title IX complaint was filed against Yale."

Why does Wikipedia consider it relevant that a Title IX complaint has been filed against Yale, but an actual court decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals regarding a proven case of discrimination against Alabama State University is not relevant?

Cfhinkle (talk) 19:38, 30 September 2013 (UTC)