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In July the California state Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) Sued Activision blizzard over Sexual harassment, Discrimination and unfair working conditions. It was stated at the time that Activision Blizzard Promoted a “Frat-Boy culture” and that this led to targeted harassment of female members of staff.
A few months later, Activision Blizzard was also Sued by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), however this was settled out of court at a cost of 18 million dollars the same day the news broke.
This resolution angered the DFEH, who filed an Expedited Intervention against the EEOC, with the claim that the EEOC’s settlement would hurt the DFEH’s case. The DFEH fired back claiming that 2 of the EEOC’s Lawyers had worked on the DFEH case which violated the California Rules of Professional Conduct.
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While all this was going on, Activision Blizzard requested a pause on the DFEH lawsuit so that the conflict between the DFEH and the EEOC could be resolved. Both Activison Blizzard and the DFEH’s motions have been denied at this time.
Right now it should be noted that the Federal EEOC has the most power in this case, being of a higher level than the State DFEH. Beyond this, the settlement that the EEOC made has started to make changes at blizzard already, with name changes to certain characters and some major changes to names, assets and dialogue in world of warcraft. With this in mind, all the EEOC has to do in this case is to defend themselves.
However, the DFEH is able to grant a greater punishment if they are able to continue with their suit, as state level Can actually impose a harsher sentence on the Party being sued should they win.
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