Activision Blizzard Inc. sued the California Civil Rights Department to get communications the game company contends show the agency is using media to push the video game maker into a sexual discrimination and harassment case settlement.

The California Civil Rights Department “unlawfully” sued Activision in July 2021 and “deliberately unleashed a hurricane of hostile media coverage against the Company based on malicious and knowingly false assertions,” the company alleged in its complaint filed under the state’s Public Records Act. “It also worked with activists who contributed to the CRD’s media war. This was neither an accident nor a coincidence.”

The Sacramento Superior Court lawsuit, which was filed Dec. 6 but made available to the public Thursday, is the latest salvo in a wider war involving the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the state Civil Rights Department over who gets to admonish Activision for alleged sexual harassment and discrimination, including gender discrimination in pay.

The litigation—in its various permutations—now spans four courts, two state and two federal. Instead of civil rights or employment law, the newest filing is using the records act to push the agency to provide records of communications with what the lawsuit said are favored media outlets, including Bloomberg News, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, New...

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