A former writer for World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. has dismissed her civil rights suit alleging the company discriminated and retaliated against her for objecting to “racist and stereotypical jargon” in the scripts of Black wrestlers.
Plaintiff Britney Abrahams agreed to dismiss the case in a notice filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The Oct. 13 filing provided no explanation for the dismissal, and counsel for the parties didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Abrahams alleged that WWE pretextually fired her for taking a WrestleMania 38 branded chair, which she said was ...
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