SACRAMENTO — Sujit Choudhry, the former UC-Berkeley law school dean sued by his executive assistant for sexual harassment, has filed a grievance with the university alleging that attempts to punish him as a faculty member amount to an “unfair, unjust” second bite at the disciplinary apple.
In an April 22 letter to the chairman of the university’s privilege and tenure committee, Choudhry said he received “multiple written and verbal assurances” that the punishment he received as dean in July 2015—a one-year 10 percent pay cut and orders to undergo management training and to write a letter of apology—would be his only discipline for inappropriately touching Tyann Sorrell over the course of seven months.
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