Fox News Asks Judge To Toss Former Reporter’s Retaliation Lawsuit
deadline.comFox News is asking a federal judge to toss out a former Capitol Hill reporter’s claim that he was fired after complaining about the network’s coverage of the aftermath of he 2020 presidential election and the attack on the Capitol on Jan.
6, 2021. In a lawsuit filed last month, Jason Donner alleged that he was fired after complaining, in writing, to Fox News’ human resources department and to his supervisor, NuNu Japaridze.
He also alleged that he was terminated for calling in sick, in violation of a District of Columbia sick leave law. “Once the inflammatory rhetoric is stripped out of the Complaint, it is apparent that Plaintiff Jason Donner has no actionable claims against his former employer,” Fox News attorneys wrote in a motion to dismiss.
They contend that Donner’s claim that the company violated a provision of the D.C. human rights law that prohibits discrimination based on political affiliation does not apply in this case. “To the contrary, accepting for purposes of this motion that everything alleged in the Complaint is true (which it is not), Plaintiff has alleged, at most, that he was terminated due to his personal disagreement with how FNN approached its news coverage,” the attorneys wrote.
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