Writers! Continue Scatalogical Pitch Sessions
2006-Apr-20 by Laughcalvin
The California Supreme Court rejected a female writer's lawsuit that the writer's of "Friends" assaulted her with filthy language in the pitch sessions.
The justices, ruling 7-0, agreed with Warner Bros. Television Productions that trash talk was part of the creative process and, therefore, the studio and its writers could not be sued for raunchy writers' meetings.
The court added that no jury would believe the writers' assistant was the target of harassment during profanity-laced meetings.
"The record discloses that most of the sexually coarse and vulgar language at issue did not involve and was not aimed at plaintiff or other women in the workplace," Justice Marvin Baxter wrote. [...]
I'm gonna run this by my Boss and see how far I get.


