Temple Cancer Center Professor Loses Bid For Harassment Trial

A Temple Health System Inc. cancer research doctor lacked sufficient evidence to warrant a trial after she allegedly faced sexual harassment and retaliation impacting her job conditions, a Philadelphia federal judge ruled.

Alana O’Reilly’s quid pro quo harassment claims against Temple Health, Temple University, The Research Institute of Fox Chase Cancer Center, and Jonathan Chernoff failed to show a “tangible employment action” under the test that’s traditionally been used to assess such claims, Judge Karen S. Marston said in a Thursday opinion for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

The ruling’s notable, however, for alternatively analyzing ...