We’ve been covering the case with disbelief since 2004 (see Feb. 15 and links therein). Hooray for common sense.
David Bernstein or Eugene Volokh will no doubt have apt commentary at Volokh’s blog. (Update: Advantage Bernstein!)
Lyle v. Warner Brothers Television Productions:
“Based on the totality of the undisputed circumstances, particularly the fact the Friends production was a creative workplace focused on generating scripts for an adult-oriented comedy show featuring sexual themes, we find no reasonable trier of fact could conclude such language constituted harassment directed at plaintiff because of her sex within the meaning of the [California Fair Employment and Housing Act].”
(via Bashman).
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Maybe I am taking a simplistic view of the case but why did it take so long to be dismissed?
Do people here think, or even better, have evidence, for my thesis/thought that Sexual Harassment litigation is all but a dead industry? I always said it depended for its survival upon weather systems in the sex culture–waves of fear and rage and hallucination–that are no longer potent, or there at all. It can’t really exist as LAW, outside of its psychic/sexual/emotional elements. Its sheer invisibility in other words–the subjectivity of the “damage” done.
If I am right, I want to start jubilating.
Any thoughts anyone?