Supreme Court Skips Review of Fired Cardiologist’s Sex Bias Case

April 15, 2024, 1:32 PM UTC

The US Supreme Court turned away a cardiologist’s case over whether a health-care network illegally fired him after receiving complaints accusing him of sex discrimination and crude behavior toward female staff.

The justices on Monday declined to examine a 2023 ruling from the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that refused to revive Dr. Samer Ali-Hasan’s sex bias suit against St. Peter’s Health Partners Medical Associates PC filed under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

The Second Circuit concluded that a district court properly granted summary judgment in favor of SPHPMA because Ali-Hasan failed to provide ...

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