A judge on Thursday dismissed a discrimination lawsuit filed by a Washington Post politics reporter against her own employer and its former executive editor, Marty Baron.
Last July, reporter Felicia Sonmez sued for discrimination, claiming that she was banned from covering stories involving sexual assault after she revealed that she herself is a sexual assault survivor.
A judge in Washington, D.C. ruled Thursday that Sonmez failed to “state a plausible claim that the Post took adverse employment actions, or created a hostile work environment, because of her sex or status as a victim of sexual assault,” and further that she failed to make a plausible claim of “negligent infliction of emotional distress.”