Overview
- Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael Shultz dismissed the suit by touring violinist Brian King Joseph, finding the filing legally insufficient.
- The ruling said the allegations did not meet California’s requirement that workplace harassment be “sufficiently severe or pervasive” to change job conditions.
- The court flagged gaps about who could access Joseph’s Las Vegas hotel room, noting he left a bag with his room key in a shared tour van before the incident.
- The judge also tossed the retaliation claim, finding Joseph did not plausibly link his removal from the tour to his report of the hotel-room discovery.
- Joseph has 30 days to file a revised complaint or the dismissal could become final, while Will Smith’s attorney has called the allegations false and baseless.