Earlier right now, a decide dismissed 10 out of 13 of her claims — most notably, her allegations of sexual harassment. Whereas the decide concluded that the harassment allegations had been “removed from baseless,” they had been dismissed as he discovered that Vigorous was an unbiased contractor, slightly than an worker. They’re nonetheless set to go to trial over her claims of retaliation.
Lawyer Sigrid McCawley, a member of Vigorous’s authorized group, subsequently advised BuzzFeed, “This case has at all times been and can stay targeted on the devasting retaliation and the extraordinary steps the defendants took to destroy Blake Vigorous’s fame as a result of she stood up for security on the set and that’s the case that’s going to trial.”
“For Blake Vigorous, the best measure of justice is that the individuals and the playbook behind these coordinated digital assaults have been uncovered and are already being held accountable by different ladies they’ve focused. She appears ahead to testifying at trial and persevering with to shine a lightweight on this vicious type of on-line retaliation in order that it turns into simpler to detect and battle,” she continued.
As for the sexual harassment dismissal, she mentioned, “Sexual harassment isn’t going ahead not as a result of the defendants did nothing fallacious however as a result of the court docket decided Blake Vigorous was an unbiased contractor, not an worker.”
BuzzFeed has reached out to a consultant for Baldoni for remark.
