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POLLIS v. NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH
United States District Court, S.D. New York (1993) | 829 F.Supp. 584
TL;DR: A university forced a 70-year-old tenured professor to retire. The court dismissed her age discrimination claim, finding it was permitted by a statutory exemption, and denied an injunction on her sex discrimination claim because she failed to prove irreparable harm from the retirement.
Legal Significance: This case interprets the scope of the ADEA's (now-expired) exemption for tenured faculty and, more importantly, illustrates the high bar for proving irreparable harm based on non-economic factors like emotional distress and loss of prestige to secure a preliminary injunction in employment discrimination cases.