A former San Francisco District Legal professional’s staffer who misplaced his job over a “reply-all” electronic mail despatched to his boss asking, “What colour panties you might have on,” claims the embarrassing message was despatched accidentally in a brand new lawsuit he filed in opposition to town.
Jovan Thomas, 56, filed the criticism on Friday, six months after San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins and her staff opened their mailboxes to seek out the risqué reply from the educated sufferer advocate in response to an electronic mail from town’s prime prosecutor to workers, Mercury Information reported.
Jenkins’ workplace slammed the e-mail as “misogynistic conduct” and Thomas, who has been beforehand accused of sexual harassment, was canned after an inside overview.
In his submitting to the Superior Courtroom, Thomas claimed the e-mail was meant to be despatched to a longtime good friend whose father had lately died, with the previous staffer saying it was only a “goofy, playful” joke to attempt to cheer up his male buddy.
“[The] textual content to his good friend was a whimsical query that was a part of plaintiffs commonplace jocular repertoire along with his good friend,” Thomas legal professionals wrote within the submitting.
“Within the context of their long-time friendship, plaintiff’s flip query had no sexual, off-color, obscene, misogynistic or sexist which means or intent,” they added.
“Fairly, it was a goofy, non-sequitur by one long-time good friend to a different good friend supposed to attempt to divert and cheer him up whereas he was going by a troublesome and upsetting expertise.”
Thomas is finally suing town for invasion of privateness, defamation and infliction of extreme emotional misery.
He’s looking for a jury trial and compensatory and punitive damages because of his firing.
Within the fallout of his firing, it was revealed {that a} Jane Doe had filed a lawsuit in opposition to Thomas in 2018 for allegedly sexually harassing her whereas engaged on a case involving her and her son.
The girl claimed Thomas stroked her butt and made sexual advances at her, with the Jane Doe complying as a result of she was apprehensive she wouldn’t get sufferer’s companies if she turned him down, the San Francisco Customary reported.
The sufferer agreed to drop Thomas from her case in opposition to town in 2019, with representatives for town submitting a movement to dismiss the case in 2021 as a result of Thomas’ alleged conduct “was not within the course and scope of his employment.”
A decide agreed and dismissed the case in December of that yr.
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