Carnegie Mellon Student Can Pursue Wiretapping, Distress Claims

Carnegie Mellon University must defend against intentional infliction of emotional distress and wiretapping claims in a Jewish student’s discrimination suit in federal court.

Though Judge W. Scott Hardy of the US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania already dismissed Yael Canaan’s emotional distress claim, he said Dec. 5 that her amended complaint presents new evidence and it wouldn’t be futile for her to pursue the claims.

Hardy previously allowed Canaan’s claims under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to proceed, saying that her allegations “plausibly show that CMU intentionally discriminated against her through its deliberate indifference ...