From the Philadelphia Inquirer (Wendy Ruderman) Thursday:
A federal jury discovered Thursday that Thomas Jefferson College carried out a gender-biased investigation into allegations that former Rothman Orthopaedic Institute surgeon John Abraham raped a former medical resident.
After a four-day civil trial in U.S. District Courtroom, jurors decided that Jefferson’s management violated Abraham’s civil rights by discriminating in opposition to him as a male and deliberately interfered along with his capacity to earn cash as a Rothman surgeon and accomplice….
The case hinged on whether or not jurors believed that Jefferson’s management ignored Abraham’s claims {that a} second-year resident in Jefferson’s orthopedic program aggressively pursued intercourse with him at a June 2018 pool occasion that he hosted at his Primary Line dwelling.
Beneath Title IX, Jefferson was obligated to analyze Abraham’s allegations, which he mentioned he relayed to a number of Jefferson officers. He claimed the resident, Jessica Phillips, received him so drunk that he was unable to consent to intercourse and tried to withstand, his attorneys argued….
“We’re not saying there was any sort of physical pinning-him-down type stuff, but when he says, ‘Wait a minute, this is a bad idea. No, knock it off,’ that’s a withdrawal of consent. That’s enough under the misconduct policy,” Abraham’s lawyer, Lane Jubb Jr., informed jurors throughout his closing assertion. “How is it that gender didn’t play a role when Dr. Phillips is permitted to continue her residency, continue her education with leniency? Can you imagine if that was a man at that party?”
Phillips mentioned she awoke in Abraham’s mattress the morning after the occasion bare, disoriented, and lined in bruises. She mentioned Abraham sexually assaulted her and filed a legal grievance in opposition to him in early July 2018. Montgomery County prosecutors closed their investigation with no fees about 4 months later….
Abraham, a former affiliate professor at Jefferson, did not dispute through the trial that he “made a mistake” when he had intercourse with Phillips. She was a subordinate required to finish a rotation below him within the hospital’s orthopedic oncology division to complete her coaching.
His authorized case targeted on the actions subsequently taken by Jefferson ….
The entire article is kind of attention-grabbing; it was written earlier than the damages verdict, although, which got here in right now at $15 million. Plaintiff is represented by Lane Jubb and Andrew Marth (The Beasley Agency, LLC).