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The plaintiff filed her go well with this week in federal court docket in San Antonio.
A former worker of Thomas J. Henry Regulation has filed a federal lawsuit alleging the San Antonio personal-injury regulation agency’s then-CEO drugged and sexually assaulted her throughout a 2019 outing.
The plaintiff, who labored for the corporate till 2022, additionally maintains that members of the agency subjected her to office hostility after the alleged incident. She’s searching for unspecified financial damages, in line with the petition, filed this week in U.S. District Courtroom for the Western District of Texas in San Antonio.
Thomas J. Henry Regulation officers had been unavailable for quick touch upon the go well with. The previous CEO recognized within the go well with, John Sweeney additionally unavailable at press time. Sweeney, who’s not a defendant within the declare, now works for Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger, a San Francisco-based regulation agency. The Present is not naming the plaintiff since she alleges she’s the sufferer of a sexual assault.
In keeping with go well with’s allegations, the plaintiff attended Austin Elevates, a two-day artwork and music pageant the agency sponsored in November 2019. Regardless that she did not drink closely, she blacked out and ended up in her resort room, in line with the claims within the authorized submitting.
The go well with alleges the plaintiff later discovered from colleagues that she’d been concerned in sexual conduct with Sweeney though she did not provide consent. She believes the previous government gave her drugged drinks on the occasion, in line with the petition.
The plaintiff maintains that she turned the supply of “rampant demeaning office gossip” after the purported encounter. Additional, she confronted hostile remedy at work, reminiscent of being “repeatedly subjected to sex-based discrimination within the phrases and situations of her employment and harassment based mostly on intercourse,” in line with the go well with’s claims.
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