PREVIOUSLY, November 16, 2019: As the streaming wars heat up, Netflix now faces some very serious allegations of institutional racial and sex discrimination from Mo’Nique over a comedy special that never happened and the fallout that followed. Last month, lawyers for both sides argued the motion in a COVID-19 induced telephone hearing before Judge Birotte. Read further details below of this case that clearly isn’t going way for Netflix – unless they settle. District Court judge added in a slap to the streamer.
“While Netflix argues that the novelty of Mo’Nique’s claim and the absence of on-point legal authority for it should bar her retaliation claims outright, the Court disagrees,” the U.S. said yesterday, “Mo’Nique plausibly alleges that, after she spoke out and called her initial offer discriminatory, Netflix retaliated against her by shutting down its standard practice of negotiating in good faith that typically results in increased monetary compensation beyond the ‘opening offer’ and denying her increased compensation as a result” ( Read the full ruling here). In rejecting the streamer’s motion to dismiss, Judge Andre Birotte Jr. The 2019 suit also alleges that “Netflix’s treatment of Mo’Nique began with a discriminatory low-ball offer and ended with a blacklisting act of retaliation.” 'BMF': Mo'Nique Joins Season 2 Of Starz Drama