CRANBERRY TWP — A sex- and pregnancy-discrimination lawsuit filed against Cranberry Township by a police officer will continue after a federal judge on Friday denied the township's request for a summary judgment.

In a 21-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Christy Chriswell Wiegand wrote that enough dispute over facts continues to exist to deny the township's motion for a summary judgment, which would have required the township to show any reasonable jury would see the evidence presented thus far only in Cranberry's favor.

Wiegand's decision, handed down Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, means the lawsuit filed by Tiffani Shaffer, a Cranberry police officer who claims she was discriminated against due to her pregnancy and retaliated against for reporting the alleged discrimination, will continue.

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