Judge Reinstates Bias Suit Against Stanford
A judge has decided that a former Stanford University medical student can proceed with a lawsuit alleging that school officials failed to protect her from professional reprisals for reporting sexual harassment in 1991.
Barbara Zylbert--who graduated with an honors medical degree in 1996--charges that university officials sabotaged her career in the decade after she filed a sexual harassment suit against a prominent Stanford cardiologist.
On Wednesday, citing new and different facts, a Santa Clara County judge reversed his January decision that released Stanford from the lawsuit. But the judge reinstated only one of Zylbert’s five complaints against the university--that she was not allowed to complete her residency training at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center.
Women have filed numerous suits against Stanford in recent years complaining of sexual harassment.
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