After last week's legal setback, women's rights organizations are again stepping up to defend the singer.
a.k.a Dr. Luke. A group of women’s civil rights groups have filed a friend of the court brief in support of the singer/songwriter to bolster her long-slogging legal fight. Legal Momentum, Equal Rights Advocates and the National Women’s Law Center filed the brief in New York State Supreme Court on Friday, arguing that Gottwald’s suit against the singer amounts to continued harassment of a sexual assault victim.
“When the abusers have money to hire lawyers, that retaliation often comes in the form of turning the law that is supposed to protect survivors into the instrument to torment and threaten. Retaliatory litigation by abusers has grown drastically, motivating the legislature to amend the Anti-SLAPP law,” the brief reads. “Sexual assault is already drastically underreported, as survivors fear disbelief or punishment for speaking up—an often-founded result.
In November 2020, the state of New York amended its anti-SLAPP law to protect survivors publicly speaking out about abuse allegations. As the lawsuit against Kesha was filed prior to the amendment, the groups contend, she’s still grappling with lawsuits for publicly talking about her assault. “This Court’s decision holds that the legislature meant to fix this ‘broken system’ only for those who happened to be sued after the amendments’ effective date—and did not intend to help the very people whose plight it cited as the reason for amending the law, since they had already been sued,” the brief read.
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