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What are the allegations against rapper Megan Thee Stallion? Cameraman lawsuit allowed to move forward by Jugde

Hostile work environment claim against Megan Thee Stallion moves forward as cameraman alleges explicit incident on the job
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    The recent decision by a federal judge has affirmed that the lawsuit filed by photographer Emilio Garcia against Megan Thee Stallion and her management label, Roc Nation, cannot be dismissed at this point, although the defense team was trying to have it dismissed.

    On July 2, a U.S. District Judge, Gregory H. Woods, ruled that the allegations made by Garcia were substantial enough to be considered further in court. The suit was filed last year by Garcia, who was a photographer for Megan, citing that he was a victim of an act that he terms highly humiliating.


    A new twist in Megan Thee Stallion's ongoing legal drama

    According to Garcia, while he and Megan Thee Stallion were in a different country, Garcia was locked up in a car where he observed Megan Thee Stallion having s*x with another female, which he perceives as an unbelievably humiliating situation.

    Since then, Garcia says things have only been downhill for him: he was shoved aside in the projects he believed to be significant, he was the victim of unfair treatment by the people around Megan, and then was dismissed, without fair reason. In his view, all this was geared towards punishing him and silencing him over the things he was witnessing.

    Megan's team of lawyers claimed that such allegations were totally untrue, and they should not even reach the court, hoping the judge would end the whole mess swiftly. However, the judge decided that the case ought not to go away, that is to say that Garcia will finally get an opportunity to explain herself in court instead of it being swept away in a closed meeting.

    The ruling has made an already dramatic situation even more of a legal mess, considering Megan Thee Stallion has had her fair share of controversies and court fights over the past years. One has to produce evidence and witnesses to support what occurred, and the truth may not be welcome to the ears of the general society, as both sides of the case are to be argued before the court.


    The main allegation stands, while other claims are dropped

    In a decision earlier this month that is only a partial victory but a legal lifeline to the main allegation made by Garcia in her hostile work environment lawsuit, Judge Woods declared that the main claim that an alleged explicit incident occurred at work will go to trial.

    Nevertheless, the judge dismissed other main claims, such as the allegations that Megan and Roc Nation punished Garcia after he reported the ill deeds and other charges of aiding and abetting the wrongdoing, further claims of a hostile working environment, and requests to get overtime remuneration.

    These losses notwithstanding, the lawyer handling Garcia, Ron Zambrano, is upbeat, citing that after taking fourteen depositions, they are now in possession of a very solid set of facts to back the rest of the claim in court.

    These depositions and other pieces of evidence are now the basis of the defense team in proving that the alleged incident has caused an unacceptable working environment.

     

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