ESPN personality Sage Steele has filed a lawsuit against the network and its parent company, Walt Disney, over allegations that her free speech rights were violated.
In a complaint filed in a Connecticut court on Wednesday, Steele alleged that the sports media outlet retaliated against her for comments she made in a podcast interview last fall.
“ESPN violated her free speech rights, retaliated against her, reprimanded her, scapegoated her, allowed the media and her peers to excoriate her and forced her to apologize simply because her personal opinions did not align with Disney’s corporate philosophy of the moment,” Steele’s attorney Bryan Freedman said in a statement to The Hill.
“Sage is standing up to corporate America to ensure employees don’t get their rights trampled on or their opinions silenced.”
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