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"HOUSTON - A Houston woman initiated legal action against an area university over alleged gender discrimination.<br /><br />In court papers filed Sept. 13 in Houston federal court, Michele Taylor alleges that Texas Southern University disciplined her for complaining about \"growing\" hostility from her supervisor, Dean Gregory H. Maddox.&nbsp;<br /><br />Taylor is a TSU graduate and has been working at the university in its graduate school for more than 30 years.<br /><br />At the time of the events in question, she works as an assistant dean.<br /><br />The suit explains that the plaintiff complained to Maddox, who is not a defendant in the case, last year about unequal salary on grounds she performed the duties and responsibilities of an associate dean.<br /><br />It claims Maddox failed to address the complaint and Taylor was made the subject of a \"negative and marginal\" 2011 performance evaluation she never knew about.<br /><br />She subsequently notified the respondent's human resources department in writing that Maddox mistreated her as well as threatened to fire her without justification.<br /><br />After months of purportedly no response, the original petition says, Taylor was given a written reprimand earlier this year that was \"unfounded and baseless.\"<br /><br />According to the claimant, the reprimand was issued out of \"blatant\" retaliation for her complaints.<br /><br />A jury trial is requested.<br /><br />Attorney LaShawn A. Williams of the L.A. Williams Law Firm P.C. in Houston is representing Taylor.<br /><br /><em>Case No. 4:13-CV-2708</em>"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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