December 04, 2024
A fired University of Pittsburgh medical school program director's article criticizing diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives isn't protected activity, since he did not specify in suing that Pitt or the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center used DEI initiatives to discriminate, the institutions' lawyers told a federal judge Wednesday.
April 04, 2022
A Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Monday that the former head of a cardiac fellowship program at the University of Pittsburgh's medical school can sue his supervisors for his removal over an article he wrote about a lack of diversity in the field, but that the school itself can't be held liable since it was not responsible for its employees' acts.