# Bennun v. Rutgers State University

> Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · August 21, 1991 · 941 F.2d 154

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/8992469

## Case

- **Full name:** Doctor Alfred BENNUN v. RUTGERS STATE UNIVERSITY Board of Governors of Rutgers State University and Doctor Edward J. Bloustein, President (Civil Rights No. 84-4655) Dr. Alfred BENNUN v. RUTGERS STATE UNIVERSITY Board of Governors of Rutgers State University and Dr. Edward J. Bloustein, President, Rutgers State University (Civil Rights No. 85-3491) Dr. Alfred BENNUN v. RUTGERS STATE UNIVERSITY (Civil Rights No. 86-621). Rutgers, the State University Board of Governors of Rutgers, the State University and Dr. Edward J. Bloustein
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- **Decided:** August 21, 1991
- **Citations:** 941 F.2d 154; 1991 WL 134841
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** On rehearing
- **Judges:** Becker, Cowen, Greenberg, Hutchinson, Mansmann, Nygaard, Roth, Scirica, Sloviter, Smith, Stapleton
- **Cited by:** 35 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Red flag:** Abrogated on other grounds by St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks, 509 U.S. 502 (1993).
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 0
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/8992469

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that, even if one employee was “teaching-oriented” professor and plaintiff was “research-oriented professor, a comparison between the two can be made to determine if [the college’s] five objective criteria for advancement to full professor were evenly applied” — even i…

## Opinion text

SUR PETITION FOR REHEARING
Present SLOVITER, Chief Judge, BECKER, STAPLETON, MANSMANN, GREENBERG, HUTCHINSON, SCIRICA, COWEN, NYGAARD and ROTH, Circuit Judges, and SMITH, District Judge. *
The petition for rehearing filed by appellants in the above captioned matter having been submitted to the judges who participated in the decision of this court and to all the other available circuit judges of the circuit in regular active service, and no judge who concurred in the decision having asked for rehearing, and a majority of the circuit judges of the circuit in regular active service not having voted for rehearing by the court in banc, the petition for rehearing is denied.
Chief Judge Sloviter would grant in banc rehearing for the reasons set forth in her attached Statement Sur Denial of Rehearing In Bane.
Judge Roth would grant in banc rehearing and joins in Chief Judge Sloviter’s attached Statement.

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