Courst Do Something Right; Throws Out Sex. Harrassment Claim

[LiddyRules]

Holy crap, the courts have ruled against the broad in an utterly unfounded sexual harrassment case. Something is going right in our judicial system.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Sexually explicit jokes and off-color language by writers of the hit TV comedy series "Friends" did not create a hostile work environment, the California Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.

The ruling by the state's high court upheld a lower court decision throwing out the sexual harassment claim brought by former writer's assistant Amaani Lyle against writers and producers of the NBC sitcom.

Because "Friends" was an "adult-oriented comedy show featuring sexual themes," Lyle should have expected coarse language from writers producing jokes and scripts for the show, the Supreme Court held in its ruling.

While the Fair Employment and Housing Act prohibits conduct that creates a hostile or abusive workplace for women, it does not outlaw "sexually coarse and vulgar language that merely offends," the high court said.



The case raised questions of how far TV comedy writers can go in pushing the boundaries of taste in their private joke-writing sessions, with supporters of the writers and producers arguing that Lyle's suit infringed on their freedom of speech.

The high court declined to address the free-speech issues raised in the case.

"We have no occasion to determine whether liability for such language might infringe on free speech rights," the court held.

The show's writers claimed Lyle was fired because she was a slow typist who often missed the jokes she was supposed to transcribe.

"Friends," which was NBC's top-rated show for several years, ended its 10-season-run in May 2004.

[FreeTheCricket]

BRA - FUCKING -VO!!

It's kinda shocking that this happpened in SF. Those idiots out there are so careful not to offend ANYONE. It almost makes me embarassed to say that I was born there.

[Taso]

Good im glad but what I dont get is
Because "Friends" was an "adult-oriented comedy show featuring sexual themes," Lyle should have expected coarse language from writers producing jokes and scripts for the show, the Supreme Court held in its ruling.
I wonder what kinda "coarse" language was used behind the scenes of that PC fagshow.

[mascan42]

Does this put an end to lawsuits from holes after they quit a radio show?

[Mother Shucker]

"Courst"?

[MetalSign]

"Courst"?

Haha

[abudabit]

Good im glad but what I dont get is

I wonder what kinda "coarse" language was used behind the scenes of that PC fagshow.


Gotta wonder what goes on behind the scenes of Lucky Louie or South Park.

[Ego]

BRA - FUCKING -VO!!

It's kinda shocking that this happpened in SF. Those idiots out there are so careful not to offend ANYONE. It almost makes me embarassed to say that I was born there.
I didn't think it was possible to be born in San Francisco. Something about that place just leads me to believe that female reproductive systems functioning in accordance with the Bible are a rarity.

[Screwtape]

money grubbing slut. she'll never work in showbiz again.

[THE FEZ MAN]

she never wanted to work in the first place, that is the basis of most of these bull shit cases the biggest problem was that it should have been thown out long before it got to the supreem court, the clerk at the lowest court should have tossed it, i bet it still cost a million dollars to shut the cunt up

[Three Hole Puncher]

http://www.christophernoxon.com/nyt_sub_pity.html

Ms. Lyle joined "Friends" in 1999 as a staff writers' assistant, an often thankless clerical job typically filled by aspiring writers willing to put up with grunt work to learn the business. Her suit claims she was forced to listen to her bosses discuss oral sex, ideal breast size and their desire to turn the character played by Matt LeBlanc into a serial rapist. In a formal declaration, which became fodder for writers' room banter after it was posted on the Web site thesmokinggun.com, Ms. Lyle said that one writer passed around a "dirty little coloring book that would allow a person to make the pictures anatomically correct," and another enjoyed blacking out letters on scripts to change the word "Friends" to the word "penis." Ms. Lyle conceded that none of the remarks were directed at her but said that the constant banter was both an offense and an imposition: "I can recall sitting around waiting to go home while writers were sitting around pretending to masturbate" and continually talking about their penises.

Sounds about right, said Zack Rosenblatt, a writers' assistant who worked alongside Ms. Lyle at "Friends." During the season they worked together, the staff was routinely busy until three or four in the morning and discussion often veered into decidedly indelicate territory.

Ms. Lyle was fired after four months, according to court papers filed by Warner Brothers, because of "slow typing." Ms. Lyle did not respond to requests for comment. She initially said she was the victim of racial discrimination, in part because fellow writers' assistants who were white were given access to networked computers while she was made to wait. And although her discrimination claim was rejected by a trial judge and an appeals court, Ms. Lyle's request to have a jury decide whether writers' dirty talk constitutes harassment is now being considered by the California Supreme Court, which is expected to issue its ruling next year.

It's unclear what Amaani Lyle herself thinks of the legal and professional arguments that have arisen from her case. After leaving "Friends" in 1999, she joined the Air Force and is stationed on the Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany. Meanwhile, her former co-worker at "Friends," Mr. Rosenblatt, has since graduated to staff jobs at two network sitcoms and just finished working as a story editor on a midseason NBC program called "The Men's Room."

"See what happens when you keep your mouth shut?" Mr. Rosenblatt said.

One more lazy, incompetent golfer trying to blame the white man for their own failings.

Typical.