BOSTON, April 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On March 31, 2023, Magistrate Judge Judith Dein of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts affirmed that the claims of Margaret Czerwienski, Lilia Kilburn, and Amulya Mandava may go forward. Ms. Czerwienski, Ms. Kilburn, and Ms. Mandava allege that Harvard acted with deliberate indifference to sexual harassment and retaliation in violation of Title IX, Massachusetts Civil Rights Laws, and Massachusetts common laws. The decision comes on the heels of an earlier decision handed down on March 27, 2023, in which Judge Dein affirmed that Ms. Kilburn had presented evidence that Harvard obtained her confidential medical records without her consent.
“We are pleased with the Court’s decisions, which confirm that Harvard cannot evade responsibility for its actions,” said Russell Kornblith, Partner and General Counsel of Sanford Heisler Sharp, LLP and counsel for the plaintiffs. “These decisions mark an important step forward for our clients and for accountability.”
Sanford Heisler Sharp and Public Justice represent Ms. Czerwienski, Ms. Kilburn, and Ms. Mandava, who are graduate students in Harvard’s Anthropology Department. The plaintiffs filed their Complaint in Massachusetts federal court against Harvard on February 8, 2022, alleging that Harvard willfully ignored nearly a decade of sexual harassment and retaliation by tenured Anthropology Department professor John Comaroff, one of the world’s leading...
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