A protective order designed to prevent secrets about the Weather Channel from becoming public was issued earlier this week in U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia in connection with former KODE weather announcer Marny Stanier's age discrimination lawsuit against the channel.
Noting that the lawsuit, which is now in the discovery stage, will involve considerable "review of personnel and employment files" that contain "confidential information," as well as "other potentially confidential materials," the wide-ranging order appears to cover documents that may not even really be confidential, but which might be potentially embarrassing to The Weather Channel.
Each party in the lawsuit is given the option to apply to the court to exclude any document which appears to fall into that category.
No trial date has been set.