award damages and order reinstatement and a positive endorsement for tenure by the non-ecclesiastical bodies, so that Sister Elizabeth’s tenure application is placed before the Chancellor and episcopal members of the Board of Trustees for the "nihil obstat” review. Plaintiffs' Reply to Defendant's Post Trial Brief at 14. Title VII expressly authorizes "any ... equitable relief as the court deems appropriate.” 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-5(g). The district court did not reach the question of remedy, however, because it dismissed the case at the liability stage. Accordingly, it did not reach the issue whether equitable relief under Title VII could include the remedy Sister McDonough suggested as an alternative. Cf. Kreis v. Secretary of the Air Force, 866 F.2d 1508, 1511 (D.C.Cir.1989)
holding that the plaintiffs request for nominal damages did not defeat mootness as it appeared that the request was made solely to obtain a ruling on a moot issue holding that although plaintiffs military promotion request was nonjusticiable and thus properly dismissed by district court his more modest request for corrective action with respect to appellants record was justiciable under administrative procedure act holding that plaintiffs request that inquiry be made of the jury about its intent behind the verdict was not a request to poll the jury holding that the district court acted within its discretion when it denied plaintiffs request for counsel holding defendants right to counsel not violated despite district court denying pretrial request by the defendant to discharge his attorney where request was made on eve of trial and was openly part of attempt to have the district judge recuse himself and delay trial