Sean Penn Wins Dismissal of Claim That He Threatened Workers (1)

A judge in Los Angeles dismissed a complaint against Sean Penn’s disaster relief organization that claimed a critical email the actor sent the nonprofit’s employees violated labor laws.

Penn’s 2021 message to CORE Response workers was a rallying cry to employees in the midst of CORE’s fight against Covid, not a threat, Administrative Law Judge Lisa Ross said Wednesday in dismissing the National Labor Relations Board case. The decision could be appealed to labor board members in Washington, and from there to federal court.

In the email, Penn said anonymous commenters on a New York Times story about CORE’s ...