Doctor’s Extortion Case Settled, Dismissed After New Trial Order Upheld

(May 17, 2024, 11:22 AM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — A federal judge in Pennsylvania dismissed with prejudice a Philadelphia doctor’s case against his former employer alleging extortion; the one-page order was filed six days after the judge denied the doctor’s motion to vacate a March decision granting judgment as a matter of law on the doctor’s tortious interference with contractual relations claims and ordering a new trial on the doctor’s Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 claim in the case in which the doctor alleges that he was forced out of his job after a female colleague initiated sexual intercourse and then later used the encounter to try to extort him....