A former employee who alleged rampant sexual discrimination and harassment inside the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) was using “disturbingly false allegations” in a “systemic and continuous internet smear campaign” to get people to stop donating to, or working with the organization, CAIR said in a lawsuit filed last Spring.
Lori Saroya’s “public lies are damaging CAIR and the American Muslim community in ways that are significant and long lasting,” CAIR’s lawsuit claimed. But CAIR may have seen that damage as less harmful than a discovery process, which could expose organizational secrets.
CAIR abruptly made an effort to dismiss the lawsuit with prejudice, meaning it cannot be refiled, on Friday. CAIR had told the Federal court in Minnesota that it would file an amended complaint by then.
Throughout the Fall, the two sides fought over CAIR’s refusal to answer a series of defense interrogatories. While CAIR claimed it had provided much of the information, it said that some requests “were interposed solely to annoy, oppress, harass and unduly burden CAIR.”
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