A Los Angeles decide has denied American singer Lizzo’s request to have her sexual harassment lawsuit thrown out.
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LIZZO’S REQUEST DENIED
In keeping with Individuals journal the Los Angeles County Superior Court docket decide dominated {that a} sexual harassment case filed by Lizzo’s former background dancers might be going ahead.
This comes after the singer was hit with a lawsuit in August 2023 lawsuit wherein her former background dancers, Noelle Rodriguez, Crystal Williams and Arianna Davis alleged that they have been abused, harassed, discriminated towards and confronted quite a few office violations whereas working for Lizzo and her manufacturing firm Large Grrrl Large Touring Inc.
In makes an attempt to get the sexual harassment lawsuit dismissed, Lizzo argued final 12 months that the case needs to be dismissed underneath California’s anti-SLAPP statute. In keeping with Billboard it is a particular regulation that makes it simpler to rapidly finish meritless lawsuits that threaten free speech (often known as “strategic lawsuits towards public participation”).
As reported by Individuals journal, a Los Angeles lawyer Ron Zambrano, who’s representing the three girls famous that they have been very happy with the decide’s ruling.
“We’re very happy with the decide’s ruling, and we completely take into account it a victory on stability”, Zambrano mentioned in a press release to the media outlet.
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A FINE LINE BETWEEN PROTECTED SPEECH AND DISCRIMINATION
When making his ruling Decide Mark Epstein famous that discovering the right stability between protected speech and unlawful discrimination was “no simple job”.
He continued: It’s harmful for the courtroom to weigh in, ham-fisted, into constitutionally protected exercise, however it’s equally harmful to show a blind eye to allegations of discrimination or different types of misconduct merely as a result of they happen in a speech-related atmosphere”.
In keeping with the lawsuit, along with sexual harassment the dancers additionally confronted non secular and racial discrimination and weight-shaming which amounted to a type of incapacity discrimination.
Lizzo’s former dancers additionally observe that she compelled them to attend a stay intercourse present at a venue in Amsterdam’s famed Purple-Gentle District known as Bananenbar, after which pressured them to have interaction with the performers, which included “consuming bananas protruding from the performers’ vaginas”.
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