Third Woman Sues to Void Secrecy Pact Linked to Trump

[DonViejo]

Source: Bloomberg News




By Christian Berthelsen

April 2, 2018, 10:35 AM EDT Updated on April 2, 2018, 11:31 AM EDT

A former employee of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign team sued the organization to nullify a non-disclosure agreement she signed, saying it muzzled her from airing discrimination claims.

Jessica Denson, a Los Angeles-based journalist and actress who oversaw phone banks and Hispanic outreach for the campaign, claims she was harassed by a superior. She had earlier filed a discrimination case against Donald Trump for President Inc. in New York state court, but the campaign sought to enforce the confidentiality deal, filing an arbitration claim asserting $1.5 million in damages.

Denson is the third woman who has sought to void a secrecy agreement involving Trump; the adult film star Stormy Daniels sued to block a pact that she alleges forced her to keep quiet about a sexual encounter with Trump, and a former Playboy model, Karen McDougal, has sued the National Enquirer to void a deal that she says forced her to stay silent about an affair she had with him.

Denson is representing herself in the lawsuits. Michael Avenatti, Daniels’s lawyer who said he had been approached by other women who had Trump-related non-disclosure agreements, declined to comment on whether Denson had been one of them. The Trump campaign didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-02/third-woman-sues-to-void-secrecy-pact-linked-to-donald-trump

[The Mouth]

1. We should compeletely get rid of ALL non disclosure agreements

and any other legal construct that serves the same function.

The *ONLY* restrictions upon any speech, ever,, anywhere, should be defamation of character or incitement to riot.

[metalbot]

3. That's absurd

There are many places where it's absolutely ok to restrict speech.

1. I'd like my doctor, or anyone who works in his office, not to be able to tell people about my medical history.
2. I'd like to be able to hire an accountant for my business without worrying that next year he'll disclose all my financials to my competition.
3. I'd like to be able to hire an attorney and be reasonably certain that he isn't going to share what I tell him with anyone.

I've lost count of the number of non-disclosure agreements that I've signed - it's a lot. But none of them were in place to hide bad behavior - they were there so that both parties who were potentially on different (or the same) sides of a business transaction could feel comfortable sharing confidential information.

If you are a prospective employee of my company, and would like to know how we're doing financially, we'll happily open the books for you. But you'll sign an NDA first.

If you want to limit discussions to "NDA's that are signed as part of a settlement", even those need to be binding. Don't want to sign an NDA as part of a sexual harassment lawsuit settlement? Don't settle. Take it to court, get a judgement, and talk about it. If you remove NDA's as possible legal outcomes in a settlement, defendants have much less incentive to settle, and that could substantially delay justice for plaintiffs who don't want to go through a multi-year expensive legal battle.

[Achilleaze]

2. Denson? Sounds suspiciously like David Dennison*

This republican immorality tale has a Thousand Ribald Kinks.


* aka Comrade Casino, republican family values role model & Draft-Dodger-in-Chief