Retrial Ordered On Title IX Claim After Philadelphia Doctor Awarded $15M

(March 25, 2024, 9:32 AM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — Three months after a federal jury returned a $15 million verdict for a Philadelphia doctor, a federal judge in Pennsylvania granted judgment as a matter of law on the doctor’s tortious interference with contractual relations claims and ordered a new trial on the doctor’s Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 claim in a lawsuit in which the doctor alleges that he was forced out of his job after a female colleague initiated sexual intercourse and then later used the encounter to try and extort him....