HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania State University is facing a lawsuit alleging it denied a professor a non-tenured teaching position because of his age.
James W. Binney filed a complaint July 23 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania against The Pennsylvania State University alleging age discrimination.
According to his complaint, Binney is a 58-year-old "scholar and educator" in the political science field and from 2005 to present served as a lecturer at Norwich University teaching economics. He began working for the defendants as a full-time assistant professor in August of 2008.
He alleges that the defendants refused to hire him as a "non-tenured lecturer" for several courses and hired "significantly younger," less qualified and less experienced for those positions who were mostly in their late 20s and early 30s.
Binney claims the defendants had "no legitimate reason" to deny him a non-tenured lecturer teaching position and that their actions were based on age discrimination. He alleges the defendant's age discrimination violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and caused him to suffer loss of earnings, benefits, loss of future earning power, back pay and front pay.
Binney seeks monetary relief, trial by jury and all other just relief. He is represented by Sindey Gold of Sidney L. Gold & Associates PC in Philadelphia.
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania case number 4:21-01297-MWB