Seventy three year old University of Pittsburgh law professor William Brown, who retired from Pitt after 30 years in 1998, is now suing the law school for failing to rehire him. In 2006, he began teaching tax again at Pitt as a visiting professor. When he sought to return to his full-time tenured gig, in 2007 or 2008, he was passed over for a more junior candidate.
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