Last year former daytime talk show host Wendy Williams' ex-husband Kevin Hunter filed a lawsuit against Wendy's former TV show producers, Debmar Mercury, for firing him after Wendy filed for divorce [click here if you missed that].
A judge has ruled that Kevin's lawsuit may move forward...
From The Sun
WENDY Williams' ex Kevin Hunter has won a major court victory in his $10million lawsuit against the production company that produced the star's daytime talk show.
In a statement given exclusively to The U.S. Sun, Kevin's civil rights attorney Abe George said that his client is happy that his case against Debmar Mercury will now move forward following a New York federal judge's recent ruling.
"Mr. Hunter is happy that the Court denied Wendy's producers' motion to dismiss and that he will ultimately see his day in court.
"Mr. Hunter was instrumental in making The Wendy Williams Show the success that it was before it went off the air and the only reason he was terminated was because his marriage was ending with Wendy, nothing at all based on the merits of his performance," the legal eagle's statement concluded.
According to the new documents filed on September 1, the civil court judge pointed to Kevin's dismissal letter sent to him by Ira Bernstein on behalf of Debmar Mercury.
The judge noted that "the termination letter made no reference to any performance-related reasons or any decisions related to the Plaintiff's employment as an executive producer."
The judge said that in their request for a dismissal, Debmar's lawyers failed in their argument that Kevin's case fell outside of marital discrimination in the New York State Human Rights Law since it only applied to people who are married or unmarried.
Debmar's legal team tried to argue that the law does not apply to discrimination based on being married to a particular person.
Kevin filed his wrongful termination suit back in February 2022.
In his complaint, he claimed that he was fired from his job as executive producer at The Wendy Williams Show because his marriage to Wendy was ending.
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