OA581: The Activision-Blizzard Settlement Is Happening and It Sucks
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🗓️ 29 March 2022
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Summary
If you're a regular listener you've heard us break down the ongoing weirdness between DFEH and EEOC over the Activision-Blizzard misconduct. It's been... unprofessional, and bad for basically everyone involved. Unfortunately, it looks like the pitifully inadequate settlement that EEOC negotiated with Activision-Blizzard is going to go through. Get the details, and what if anything can still be done about it.
Before that, Andrew gives us an update on Eastment. He's still slow walking the documents, but now wants early discovery? What? Get the breakdown!
Links: Eastman motion for early discovery, Chapman opposition, Eastman reply brief, DFEH motion to intervene denied 12/20/21, 1/4/22 amended decree substantively the same, 1/18 DFEH objections, 3/4 employee moves to intervene, attachment C to amended decree, 3/22 motion to intervene denied, 3/22 order on PACD
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| 0:00.0 | The Magna Carter. Carter, meaning quite literally charter, a magna, meaning Japanese animation. |
| 0:18.3 | Oh, come on! A good lawyer couldn't win this case! |
| 0:23.2 | There's this vampire larvae also have a local vampire here on the council this evening, Colin Covenson. |
| 0:28.8 | Hello! |
| 0:32.4 | I was a possible that you've never heard about James Simpson. |
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| 0:45.2 | You had no idea what to report meant, and when I asked you to explain to six the amendment, you pled the fifth. |
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| 1:11.7 | Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments. This is Episode 581. |
| 1:22.5 | I'm Thomas. That's Andrew. How are you doing? Fantastic, Thomas. How are you? |
| 1:26.2 | Doing great. Of course, I'm not the lawyer. You are the lawyer. I feel like you should say that from time to time for new listeners, |
| 1:31.8 | but I don't know. I feel like they would probably figure it out within a couple of seconds of listening to the show. |
| 1:37.4 | I like the idea that they might not be able to figure it out. That would be pretty cruel if I was the lawyer |
| 1:44.8 | and you weren't and I just made you do these law deep dives while I poked fun at the law. |
| 1:50.0 | That would be awesome, actually. Do you have idea for sure? |
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| 1:57.2 | All right, well, reminder that we have a live Q&A on YouTube. This Wednesday, March 30th at 4pm |
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