A
lawsuit that made a big bang in Silicon Valley two years ago with allegations of mistreatment of politically conservative tech workers came to a quiet end this week.
Former
Google engineer James Damore and three other men who worked for or applied for jobs at the
Alphabet Inc. unit asked a court to dismiss their lawsuit. Their written request was joined by Google.
A lawyer for the men, Harmeet Dhillon, said they're prohibited as part of their agreement with Google from saying anything beyond what's in Thursday's court filing. Google declined to comment.
Damore was fired from Google in 2017 after he wrote a memo arguing that innate differences between the sexes might explain why women are underrepresented at the internet giant and other tech companies. He sued the company the following year, alleging that it allows discrimination against conservative white men.
The lawsuit made him the darling of the alt-right movement and conservative media and was
joined by other men with similar grievances, even as legal experts
said Damore would have a hard time winning redemption in court.
In 2018, Damore suffered a setback when a National Labor Relations Board attorney concluded the engineer's use of biological stereotypes in his widely circulated memo was offensive enough to cause disruption in the workplace, making his firing lawful.
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