Drexel Defeats Black Female Compliance Chief at Harassment Trial

Drexel University isn’t liable for harassment a Black female compliance chief says she faced at the hands of a White male subordinate, a Philadelphia federal judge ruled following a bench trial.

The evidence instead showed Kim Gunter was “hypersensitive” in her contentious work relationship with the man, who resisted what he saw as her intrusion on the independence of his internal audit department, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said. The ruling Monday is notable for rejecting Gunter’s reliance on the microaggressions theory, finding her difficulties with the subordinate weren’t aggressions directed at her or “were ...