OA513: California v. Activision Blizzard, Inc
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🗓️ 3 August 2021
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
If you're a gamer, or just very online, you have likely seen a ton of coverage of an explosive lawsuit against Activision. It alleges discriminatory behavior against women, ranging from general pay discrepancies to specific sexual misconduct claims. As usual, law-expert Andrew Torrez has the complete breakdown for us! Before that, we read a very moving email from Jane Doe #12 in the Liberty University suit.
Links: The Atari Timeline, Activisionaries: How Four Programmers Changed The Game Industry, 42 US Code § 2000e–2 - Unlawful employment practices, Section 432.6 - Requiring waiver of rights prohibited
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| 0:00.0 | The party in the face part should be known in this contract as the party in the face part. |
| 0:19.2 | The witness will comply under the, uh, this, uh, zero. |
| 0:27.8 | Judge Perth is stumped by this case. |
| 0:29.7 | I've also misplaced my judge-hammin. |
| 0:31.7 | The Justice system works swiftly in the future and I'll think of polished all lawyers. |
| 0:39.7 | The light cloud will suggest that your client drives my client back to your client's flat where |
| 0:48.7 | your client will play some James Taylor. |
| 0:53.7 | Welcome to Opening Arguments, a podcast that pairs a comedian with a real-life lawyer. |
| 0:59.7 | This podcast is sponsored by the law offices of P. Andrew Torres LLC for entertainment purposes, |
| 1:04.7 | is not intended as legal advice and does not form an attorney-client relationship. |
| 1:08.7 | Don't take legal advice from a podcast. |
| 1:17.7 | Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments. This is episode 513. I'm Thomas. That's Andrew. How you doing? |
| 1:23.7 | I am fantastic, Thomas. How are you? |
| 1:25.7 | Well, I gotta say I'm a little sad already just going into this episode because I haven't, |
| 1:29.7 | I haven't delved into the details, but just the, the few things I've seen about this act of vision stuff. |
| 1:37.7 | It seems really gross, terrible, something I would rather just not exist in the world. |
| 1:42.7 | We'll see how that goes. But, you know, excited to be doing the show. I know that as always, |
| 1:47.7 | I'm going to understand the story much better than I ever would on any other source from your breakdown. |
| 1:52.7 | So I'm excited about that part. Me too. |
| 1:54.7 | Well, before we get to that, we have to talk about an incredible email we received. |
| 2:00.7 | So why don't we do just that, Andrew? Yeah. So we got an email. And this is Andrew again. |
| 2:06.7 | I know I say this all the time, but this is one of the, maybe the coolest thing about doing the show. |
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