Case Status: Victory

Lyle v. Warner Brothers Television Production

  • State Courts

CIR filed an amicus brief urging California Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that discussion of sexual themes in writers’ meetings for the television show ‘Friends’ created a hostile work environment and is not protected by the First Amendment.

Updates on this Case

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What would Rachel say?

  • News

Commentary By Harvey A. Silverglate The Wall Street Journal, August 4, 2004 Free speech “paranoids” have long warned that sexual harassment law is mushrooming out of control. Well, that fear has just been vindicated in…

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State's high court hears from 'Friends'

  • News

Harassment charge from production days puts free speech at issue By Joyce Howard Price Washington Times, June 22, 2004 Free-speech groups want the California Supreme Court to overturn an appellate ruling that allowed a writers’…

Legal Documents

California Supreme Court Opinion
Apr 20, 2006
Amicus Brief
Jun 16, 2004