(DOWNLOAD) "Lyle v. Warner Brothers Television Productions" by Colorado Supreme Court " eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Lyle v. Warner Brothers Television Productions
- Author : Colorado Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 20, 2006
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 110 KB
Description
Plaintiff was a comedy writers assistant who worked on the production of a popular television show called Friends. The show revolved around a group of young, sexually active adults, featured adult-oriented sexual humor, and typically relied on sexual and anatomical language, innuendo, wordplay, and physical gestures to convey its humor. Before plaintiff was hired, she had been forewarned that the show dealt with sexual matters and that, as an assistant to the comedy writers, she would be listening to their sexual jokes and discussions about sex and transcribing the jokes and dialogue most likely to be used for scripts. After four months of employment, plaintiff was fired because of problems with her typing and transcription. She then filed this action against three of the male comedy writers and others, asserting among other things that the writers use of sexually coarse and vulgar language and conduct, including the recounting of their own sexual experiences, constituted harassment based on sex within the meaning of the Fair Employment and Housing Act (the FEHA) (Gov. Code, 12900 et seq.; all further statutory references are to this code unless otherwise indicated).