ABC SETTLES LAWSUIT
American Broadcasting Cos. Inc. and a former female employee reached an out-of-court settlement Tuesday in her $15-million suit charging sexual harassment.
The terms of the settlement were not disclosed immediately.
Cecily Coleman, 31, of Arlington, Va., brought the suit after she was fired from her $60,000-a-year job last May. She charged that the network fired her after she complained of sexual harassment by James D. Abernathy, 43, when he was ABC’s vice president for corporate affairs.
U.S. District Judge Barrington Parker dismissed the case and the jury, which had been chosen last Friday to hear the trial.
ABC and Abernathy had denied Coleman’s charges.
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