In this lawsuit against you and your mother, is it you or her who is accused of sexual harassment and racism? I don’t have access to read the case details.
> In this lawsuit against you and your mother, is it you or her who is accused of sexual harassment and racism?
Both (and the company through which they employed the plaintiff) are accused of the various discrimination, harassment, wage theft, etc., violations.
(EDIT: Though his mother is apparently accused of doing the direct racially- and religiously-bigoted statements, and the persistent graphic descriptions of Matt's sexual escapades, Matt's role -- other than as ultimately responsible as employer -- is participating directly in retaliation by taking complaints about the behavior back to his mother who accelerated rather than taking action to curtail them.)
> I don’t have access to read the case details.
You don't need access, you just need to go straight to the court site instead of a third-party aggregator.
And, if you had a nickel for every currently-active lawsuit against Matt and his mom for that kind of thing filed on June 9, 2022, you'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's interesting that there is more than one...
Am I reading this correctly? This guy owns an LLC through which he directly employs a personal healthcare team for his mother? And Mr. "Post-Economic" couldn't pay his nurses a fair wage?
> PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that Defendants hereby respectfully object to the Case Management Order, Notice of Time and Place of Trial and Trial Related Orders dated May 23, 2024. Since the filing of Defendants’ Case Management Conference Statement on May 21, 2024, Mira Hashmall, lead counsel for Defendants, has had a 5-7 day trial scheduled with a start date of March 17, 2025. With the trial in this matter starting on March 10, 2025, and trial in Case No. CGC-22-600095 starting on March 24, 2025, that would be three back-to-back trials and potential overlap amongst them.
That doesn't move the needle as far as restoring the trust you've broken.
You should negotiate with WP Engine to drop their suit contingent on your resignation. Maybe they'll go for it. Resigning is the only thing that would prove you're serious about allowing your power to be checked. And perhaps the only thing that would stop you from cutting a huge settlement check (probably within weeks and not the years you've anticipated).
Do you think that's something you're capable of? Do you care more about the future of WordPress and of open source than you do about your own power and rivalries? Will you prove it to us?
To be frank I don't believe you will. I'm pretty cynical about this kind of thing. But I've been wrong before. It would take a very strong person to admit, not just publicly but to their bitter rivals, that they had lost control and damaged their own life's work.
But if that person is you - it wouldn't be much, but you'd have my admiration.
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Stark: Make peace with the Lannisters, you say? With the people who tried to murder my boy?
Baelish: We only make peace with our enemies, my lord.
