Tagged: tacit admission
“Washington cannot cite to a stack of studies on discrimination that have nothing to do with WME and rely exclusively on them in claiming that WME has been engaged in a 100-year-old conspiracy to maintain white/Jewish dominance of the entertainment industry. To accept Washington’s argument would be to endorse his racial and ethnic stereotyping and to permit a claimant to evade summary judgment based simply upon a generalized and inaccurate view of the entertainment industry and the talent agency workplace. Washington has admitted that WME never treated him differently because of his race; and his claim of disparate treatment fails for that reason alone.” — Michael Zweig of Loeb & Loeb LLP, November 20, 2013
If William Morris were truly innocent of Michael P. Zweig, Christian Carbone and Loeb & Loeb LLP’s criminal and unethical conduct, I think they would have a pretty strong claim for malpractice….
It’s funny to note that this statement was made in direct response to my following statement, in which they quote me in their Final Position Statement [pg. 8]:
Mr. Washington is not alleging that William Morris discriminated against him due to his race, color and/or perceived national origin. Based on the federal, state and city civil and human rights laws, the overwhelming amount of sociological and organizational research on the topic of discrimination in the workplace, and numerous articles published over the decades chronicling this issue of racism in Hollywood in magazines and newspapers including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly and others, this is fact.
I said this in paragraph 172 of my COMPLAINT that was filed with the Southern District of New York on DECEMBER 21, 2010!! I knew then — “based on the federal, state and city civil and human rights laws, the overwhelming amount of sociological and organizational research on the topic of discrimination in the workplace, and numerous articles published over the decades chronicling this issue of racism in Hollywood….” that I uncovered between June and December 2010 — that my claims of pre and post-hiring individual disparate treatment due to my “race, color and/or perceived national origin” were a “fact.” I was not making an “alleg[ation]” against William Morris any longer (e.g. trying to discuss the issue with former COO Cara Stein and HR’s Carole Katz while employed, filing complaint with EEOC, etc.) and the additional evidence I’ve uncovered over the last three years since filing my complaint (e.g. “Exhibit 31” and the “on-going” conspiracy to conceal these “nigger” e-mails) further proves this is a fact — no matter what conclusion Gregory reaches on December 23, 2013.
there is nothing they can say at this point that can refute the pyramid of evidence i have proving institutionalized racism in Hollywood & how corruption is vertically integrated throughout America’s judicial system. #fact
No matter what Arbitrator David L. Gregory decides in this case next month, that decision will have to be appealed because he denied me due process by prematurely and erroneously dismissing both of my conspiracy claims in his third Interim Decision, while simultaneously admitting smoking-gun, spoliated evidence that proves all of my claims, including claims of antitrust violations and conspiracy to interfere with civil rights! Smh. The fact that he has now admitted “Exhibit 31” into the evidence of the record after Republican appointed federal judge Robert P. Patterson dismissed it 8 years ago as an “unidentified and unauthenticated document” in Rowe Entertainment v. William Morris Agency et al., further PROVES what I have been arguing for nearly the last three years: the “discrimination” provision and/or the two arbitration agreements i signed as a condition of employment are unconscionable, tainted with illegality and malum in se AND arbitration is an inappropriate forum for this case because the public policy goals of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Sherman Act and additional statutes being used to help eradicate institutionalized racism and employment discrimination throughout Hollywood (particularly at William Morris Endeavor Entertainment) cannot be effectuated in such an inadequate, quasi-judicial forum. This case should remain in the federal court and be decided by an impartial jury reflecting the diversity of New York City!!!