Professor Gets Bias Trial Over Student Sexual Harassment Probe

A former Berklee College of Music professor who faced student complaints of sexual harassment can go to trial on part of his gender discrimination lawsuit challenging his suspension and termination following investigations into the complaints, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled.

Berklee must defend at trial federal and state law claims stemming from two investigations that led to the male professor’s suspension and ultimate firing, Judge Patti B. Saris of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled Tuesday. But the professor can’t show a hostile work environment or that the school violated Title IX by reaching an “erroneous ...