Penn State Beats White Employee’s Suit Over Anti-Racism Training

A Penn State writing professor lacks evidence that job-related trainings and discussions regarding anti-racism and White privilege made his work environment unlawfully hostile, a federal judge ruled.

The 12 incidents over 3.5 years the former employee cited weren’t frequent enough to be pervasive harassment under federal or state law, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said. None of the incidents were sufficiently severe under Third Circuit precedent to support a jury finding of hostile environment harassment, the court said.

Judge Wendy Beetlestone, who had previously denied a motion to dismiss Zack De Piero’s harassment claims while ...