Three members of the props crew on the ABC medical drama Physician Odyssey have filed go well with towards guardian firm Disney and producer twentieth Tv, alleging sexual harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, and negligent hiring, retention, and supervising practices.

Caroline Mack, Alicia Haverland, and Ava Steinbrenner declare within the go well with, filed in California's state Superior Court docket on Friday and obtained by Leisure Weekly,that Tyler Patton, employed by the businesses to function Physician Odyssey's assistant prop grasp beneath his spouse, prop grasp Tammie Patton, subjected them to an "unchecked marketing campaign of sexual harassment for months." In response, the plaintiffs allege that the Pattons retaliated towards them, Disney and twentieth TV ignored their complaints, and in the end laid off the whole props division relatively than examine and take acceptable motion.

Mack, Haverland, and Steinbrenner are requesting a jury trial.

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EWhas reached out to reps for Disney, twentieth Tv, and Tammie and Tyler Patton for remark.

The members of the props division that filed go well with say they had been employed in late spring or early summer season of 2024 to work on the primary season of Physician Odyssey, which premiered in September 2024 and aired its final episode in Could. Tammie and Tyler Patton had been employed shortly thereafter, a call the plaintiffs say they weren't joyful about, citing a 2010 lawsuit introduced towards Fox and Common that alleged Tyler Patton had created a equally poisonous tradition on the set of House and retaliated towards an assistant prop grasp there for complaining.

Of their capability as prop grasp and assistant prop grasp, the Pattons supervised and directed Mack, Haverland, and Steinbrenner's every day work. They had been additionally answerable for hiring further members of the props division, which they declare Tyler stuffed together with his "male buddies," noting "some overlap between staff on Physician Odyssey and staff on the set of Home."

Tyler Patton and a number of other different male props staff created "an illegal den of sexual harassment and retaliation," they declare, which Tammie Patton not solely ignored however subjected them to retaliation for complaining about.

Mack, Haverland, and Steinbrenner allege that Tyler Patton bodily harassed them ("undesirable, lingering hugs," "touching one of many Plaintiff's thighs," "overtly grabbing a visiting worker's buttocks on set"), verbally harassed them (they declare he made frequent undesirable feedback about sexual acts and BDSM practices to them, texted them lewd remarks and pictures, and "commonly sexualized" them in statements made aloud in entrance of the entire crew), and engaged in "vital sexualized visible conduct" reminiscent of making obscene gestures and sporting clothes that includes provocative pictures and statements.

Two weeks after the plaintiffs to the go well with complained about Tyler Patton's conduct, he was fired. However shortly thereafter Don Bracken, recognized as "a buddy of the Pattons," was employed to switch him. They allege he continuously instructed them "there's no disgrace in quitting" following their complaints. After being demoted to duties they name "demeaning" — characterised as retaliatory conduct — Mack, Haverland, and Steinbrenner say the whole props division was fired save Bracken, who by no means labored immediately with Tyler Patton.

Because of the Pattons' "illegal conduct," Mack, Haverland, and Steinbrenner say they’ve "suffered and can proceed to undergo ache and struggling, excessive and extreme psychological anguish and emotional misery, in addition to financial damages together with the lack of previous and future earnings and advantages."

The plaintiffs are searching for common and compensatory damages "in quantities to be confirmed at trial."

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