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Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to multiple sexual assault charges in California.
The former film producer appeared in Los Angeles Superior Court after being indicted on 11 counts of rape, sexual battery and other charges stemming from separate incidents involving five women from 2004 to 2013.
Weinstein, 69, is already serving a 23-year sentence in New York after being convicted of rape and sexual assault charges in February of last year. He had been extradited from New York to California on Tuesday.
Weinstein reportedly faces up to 140 years to life.
The Los Angeles trial had faced delays due to the coronavirus pandemic. The ex-movie mogul s next court hearing is scheduled for July 29.
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Top U.S. senator demands inquiry into Justice Dept grants system
A top U.S. Senate Republican has demanded an investigation into new Justice Department grant-management software, after Reuters reported https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-47-billion-grant-programs-tech-woes-take-toll-justice-groups-2021-07-12 that technological glitches in the system have delayed funding programs from police departments to victims service providers. Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Charles Grassley in a letter on Wednesday asked Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz to launch a formal probe into the department s roll-out of the new software, known as JustGrants, which manages a $4.7 billion grant program.
California sues Activision Blizzard over sexist, harmful workplace culture ); }
The state of California is suing Activision Blizzard over some of the most toxic workplace sexual harassment allegations leveled against the game industry, according to a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court.
The agency is seeking an injunction to force compliance with workplace protections, and for the company to settle up on unpaid wages, pay adjustments, back pay, and lost wages and benefits for the women making the accusations.
The lawsuit (unearthed first by Bloomberg Law) contains some of the most shocking descriptions of sexist and toxic workplace culture that we’ve covered on Gamasutra.
Activision Blizzard Is Sued by California Over Workplace Culture
The lawsuit says women at the gaming company were paid less and discriminated against, and it described a culture of sexual harassment.
Activision Blizzard, the maker of the Call of Duty games, was sued by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing.Credit.Mike Blake/Reuters
July 21, 2021
A California state agency is suing Activision Blizzard, the video game maker that produces Call of Duty, over claims of sexual harassment and discrimination.
After a two-year investigation, the state’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court that Activision fostered a “‘frat boy’ workplace culture.” Executives sexually harassed women, the agency said, and male employees openly joked about rape and drank alcohol while engaging in “inappropriate behavior” toward women at their cubicles during events known as “cube crawls.”
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