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Can
you
get
a
judicial
order
to
put
the
toothpaste
back
in
the
tube?
Fox
News
is
aiming
to
find
out.
Yesterday,
the
company
filed
a
motion
to
seal
portions
of
the
employment
discrimination
case
filed
on
Monday
by
Abby
Grossberg,
a
former
booker
for
Tucker
Carlson
and
Maria
Bartiromo.
Grossberg
alleges
widespread
sex
discrimination
at
the
network,
as
well
as
a
a
hostile
work
environment
where
derogatory
comments
about
women
and
Jews
was
pervasive.
But
it’s
allegations
about
conduct
by
Fox’s
lawyers
as
they
prepared
Grossberg
to
be
deposed
in
the
$1.6
billion
Dominion
defamation
suit
which
have
the
network
flipping
out.
In
her
complaint,
Grossberg
describes
conduct
which
is
perilously
close
to
suborning
false
testimony.
For
instance:
Ms.
Grossberg
also
left
the
deposition
preparation
sessions
with
the
distinct
impression
and
understanding
that
it
was
in
her
clear
best
interests
to
respond
to
questions
with
the
generic,
“I
do
not
recall”
whenever
she
had
the
opportunity.Ms.
Grossberg
left
the
deposition
preparation
sessions
without
knowing
that
by
giving
such
false/misleading
and
evasive
answers
like
the
ones
Fox’s
legal
team
reacted
to
positively
to
during
the
prep
sessions,
she
not
only
opened
herself
up
to
civil
and
criminal
liability
for
perjury,
but
was
subtly
shifting
all
responsibility
for
the
alleged
defamation
against
Dominion
onto
her
shoulders,
and
by
implication,
those
of
her
trusted
female
colleague,
Ms.
Bartiromo,
rather
than
the
mostly
male
higher
ups
at
Fox
News
who
endorsed
the
repeated
coverage
of
the
lies
against
the
Dominion.
Grossberg
alleges
that
Fox’s
lawyers
encouraged
her
to
deflect
blame
away
from
her
male
colleagues
and
the
male
hosts
and
onto
herself
and
Maria
Bartiromo,
whom
management
described
as
“menopausal,”
“hysterical,”
and
a
“diva.”
The
complaint
characterizes
this
as
part
of
a
pattern
of
discrimination
the
plaintiff
encountered
and
adds
that
Grossberg
was
discouraged
from
telling
Dominion’s
lawyers
that
Bartiromo
lacked
sufficient
staff
to
properly
read
all
the
emails
from
Dominion
warning
them
not
to
put
Sidney
Powell
and
Rudy
Giuliani
on
the
air
to
slander
the
voting
machine
company.
For
its
part,
Fox
has
been
trying
to
head
off
this
complaint
since
before
it
was
filed.
On
Monday,
Fox
sought
a
TRO
in
New
York
state
court
blocking
Grossberg
from
disclosing
anything
about
her
communications
with
its
lawyers.
On
Tuesday,
after
Grossberg
filed
her
federal
case,
it
withdrew
the
state
complaint.
Then
Wednesday,
it
filed
the
instant
motion
to
seal,
more
or
less
pasting
in
the
language
from
the
withdrawn
TRO.
Fox
argues
the Grossberg
“met
with
inside
and
outside
counsel
for
Fox
News
on
several
occasions
to
provide
Fox
News’
attorneys
with
information
to
assist
in
their
provision
of
legal
advice
to
Fox
News
and
their
defense
of
the
case,
as
well
as
to
prepare
for
Ms.
Grossberg’s
deposition.”
“These
sessions
were
aimed
at
further
developing
a
legal
strategy
and
defense
to
the
claims
alleged
against
Fox
News
in
the
Dominion
Lawsuit
and
ultimately
providing
Fox
News
with
legal
advice,”
they
continue,
adding
that
the
plaintiff
“publicly
filed
privileged
and
confidential
information
belonging
to
Fox
News
without
Fox
News’
consent.”
So
the
defendant
would
like
to
seal
portions
of
the
complaint
which
have
already
been
on
the
public
docket
for
almost
three
days
now.
Perhaps
this
is
in
preparation
for
an
eventual
breach
of
contract
counterclaim
against
Grossberg,
which
might
go
some
way
to
inducing
her
to
settle.
But
if
the
aim
is
to
actually
hide
this
information
from
Dominion,
that
ship
has
probably
sailed.
But
thanks
for
letting
the
rest
of
us
know
that
paragraphs
135-140,
143,
145,
146,
149-151,
155-
156,
160-162,
and
312
are
where
the
juicy
stuff
is.
Grossberg
v.
Fox
Corp [Docket
via
Court
Listener]
Liz
Dye lives
in
Baltimore
where
she
writes
about
law
and
politics
and
appears
on
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Arguments podcast.