A Philadelphia Common Pleas judge has overturned a jury’s award of $150,000 to a man who said his employer invaded his privacy by subjecting him to an embarrassing, police-style interrogation after he had an innocent, romantic tryst with a female co-worker that she later reported to company management as a rape.

But in the same opinion, the judge upheld the jury’s decision that the woman had defamed the man by making a false report, but that the man was not entitled to any compensatory damages on that claim.

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