In September 2021, at the height of the Covid pandemic, ESPN anchor Sage Steele appeared on the podcast “Uncut with Jay Cutler” on her day off. During the interview, Cutler asked Steele why she had…
policy, which required salaried and non-union workers to be fully vaccinated. The 16-year veteran of ESPN went on to slam the corporate mandate as “sick” and “scary” and noted that she “didn’t want to” get the vaccine but still complied in order to keep her job and support her family.
Steele’s suit argues that Connecticut law prohibits private employers from disciplining their employees for engaging in constitutionally protected speech, whether that speech takes place in the workplace or outside of it. Given that her comments were made “on her own time and on matters of significant public interest,” they are protected under both the U.S.
“The core of free speech is you don’t just tolerate speech you like. You engage with speech that you may not like,” adds Geragos, whose clients have included Winona Ryder, Sean “Diddy” Combs and the late Michael Jackson. “If you’re an anchor for a network, you are the face of that network. And anytime somebody is the public face of the company, and they start talking about the company, they might be opening themselves up to some kind of discipline from the company, including termination,” McRae says. “But Connecticut has this interesting law that protects Sage.”
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