Drexel University Denied Judgment, New Trial in Pay Bias Lawsuit

Drexel University failed to convince a federal judge it was entitled to a new trial on a female professor’s Equal Pay Act claim, for which a jury awarded her $354,993 in damages.

The university was wrong that liability had been unfairly imposed against it prior to trial as a sanction for its failure to disclose certain data on how it paid professors in its English and Philosophy department, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said. The redacted W-2s for those professors that the university handed over to the plaintiff were insufficient to show Drexel didn’t engage ...