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A Minnesota lawyer who spent his career fighting against discrimination has died. Paul Sprenger successfully handled a major sex discrimination case against the University of Minnesota and the sexual haraassment suit against Eveleth Taconite on Minnesota's iron range. It was the first successful sexual harassment class-action lawsuit in the nation.

The story of the women working in the mines became a 2005 Hollywood movie, with Woody Harrelson playing the character based on attorney Paul Sprenger. Earlier that year, MPR's Stephanie Hemphill and Catherine Winter had produced a documentary about it, "No Place for a Woman."

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A Minnesota lawyer who spent his career fighting against discrimination has died. Paul Sprenger successfully handled a major sex discrimination case against the University of Minnesota and the sexual haraassment suit against Eveleth Taconite on Minnesota's iron range. It was the first successful sexual harassment class-action lawsuit in the nation. In 2005 MPR's Stephanie Hemphill and Catherine Winter produced a documentary about it, "No Place for a Woman."

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