Andy Cohen FIGHTS BACK Towards Leah McSweeney In New Authorized Submitting!
Bravo’s Andy Cohen has hit again in opposition to former Actual Housewives of New York star Leah McSweeney, urging a decide to dismiss her discrimination lawsuit as “speculative” and “demonstrably false.”
In a federal lawsuit filed final month and obtained by RadarOnline.com, McSweeney alleged that Cohen “tormented, demoralized, demeaned, harassed, and retaliated” in opposition to her “as a result of she is a girl with disabilities, akin to alcohol use dysfunction and numerous psychological well being problems, all within the identify of promoting drama.”
The criticism, which listed Warner Bros Discovery, Shed Media, Bravo Media, and NBC Common as defendants alongside Cohen, claimed that Cohen fostered a “rotted office tradition” that pressured staff to devour alcohol, alleged his involvement in cocaine use with Housewives and different personalities, and asserted preferential remedy and modifying for Housewives concerned in such actions.
Cohen’s authorized workforce vehemently refuted the accusations, branding them as “categorically false” and demanding a public apology. In accordance with Deadline, Cohen, together with co-defendants NBCU, WBD, Lisa Shannon, John Paparazzo, Darren Ward, Shed Media US Inc, and Bravo Media, filed a movement this week urging U.S. District Choose Lewis J. Liman to schedule a listening to to dismiss the case.
In a memorandum of legislation accompanying the movement, Cohen’s attorneys acknowledged, “Whereas Plaintiff makes an attempt to overwhelm with a 754-paragraph criticism, even a cursory evaluate of her allegations reveals that many concern issues totally irrelevant to her claims and most are devoid of any factual or authorized help, speculative, deceptive, and/or demonstrably false.”
“A lot of Plaintiff’s claims, supported solely by essentially the most conclusory and threadbare allegations, ought to be dismissed as a matter of legislation,” the 32-page memo continued. “The remainder of Plaintiff’s claims ought to be dismissed as a result of they impermissibly search to abridge Defendants’ First Modification rights to tailor and regulate the messages they want to convey of their artistic works, together with by means of solid choice and different artistic selections.”
“Underneath well-settled legislation, even when Defendants did wish to use the Housewives franchise to characteristic inebriated solid members (which they don’t), that message — achieved by means of casting and directing selections — can be protected beneath the First Modification.”
In response, McSweeney’s legal professional, Sarah Matz, countered, stating, “We don’t agree that the movement has benefit — it principally argues for dismissal on technical grounds primarily saying that Defendants had been allowed to discriminate in opposition to Ms. McSweeney — not that they didn’t do it.”
“To agree with the Defendants can be to primarily say that the artistic industries should not topic to anti-discrimination and anti-retaliation legal guidelines and that networks may have interaction in discrimination and retaliation with impunity, which isn’t the legislation.”
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Avigail is an Leisure blogger at All About The Tea, who makes a speciality of The Actual Housewives of Atlanta and The Actual Housewives of Potomac. Avigail has a background in advertising. She’s a Brooklynite residing within the Bahamas, with a ardour for journey, writing, actuality TV watching, popular culture and spoken phrase.
