Labor/Employment
Mar. 20, 2026
Former BlackBerry executive's claims about CEO misconduct heads to trial
U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim found triable issues over whether a former BlackBerry executive was fired for reporting alleged harassment, allowing key retaliation claims to proceed while dismissing others.
A magistrate judge in San Francisco has ruled that a former BlackBerry executive can take her retaliation and wrongful termination lawsuit to trial.
The plaintiff claims she was fired for reporting sexual harassment by the company's CEO, John Giamatteo, though the stand-alone sexual harassment claim over a hostile work environment was knocked out earlier in the case.
In an order unsealed Wednesday in the Northern District of California, U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie K...
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