San Francisco Chronicle: Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s role in Weinstein trial raises thorny legal issues

November 14. 2022


Executive Director Noreen Farrell is in a San Francisco Chronicle article today, commenting on the #MeToo movement in relation to new developments in the trial against Harvey Weinstein:

Noreen Farrell, executive director of the women’s advocacy group Equal Rights Advocates, said women often have to keep interacting with people who assaulted them to continue doing their jobs. In her experience, she said, the argument Weinstein’s defense is raising is becoming less salient with juries. “It’s a tactic as old as time,” she said. “If the #MeToo movement has done anything, it has really chipped away at this.”

 

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