{"id":129800,"date":"2025-08-08T19:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/129800\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T19:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:13:10","slug":"judge-throws-out-sex-harassment-suit-against-ex-county-supervisor-nathan-fletcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/129800\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge throws out sex-harassment suit against ex-county Supervisor Nathan Fletcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Nathan-Fletcher-1.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Nathan-Fletcher-1.jpg\" alt=\"Nathan Fletcher on trolley\" class=\"wp-image-166581\"  \/><\/a>Nathan Fletcher on an MTS trolley. (File photo courtesy of MTS)<\/p>\n<p>A Superior Court judge on Friday dismissed a sexual harassment lawsuit against former Supervisor Nathan Fletcher that shook the political landscape in San Diego two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Matthew Braner dismissed  the lawsuit by Grecia Figueroa, a former employee of the <a href=\"http:\/\/sdmts.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Diego Metropolitan Transit System<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The suit alleged Fletcher directed MTS executives to fire Figueroa after she came forward with allegations that Fletcher sexually assaulted her and was sending her explicit messages.<\/p>\n<p>Fletcher, who was the face of the county\u2019s health efforts during the pandemic, denied the allegations and said the two had a consensual relationship.<\/p>\n<p>The former supervisor resigned in May 2023 and ended his campaign for state Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Last week Braner dismissed Figueroa\u2019s wrongful termination lawsuit against MTS.<\/p>\n<p>Then, in a tentative ruling on Thursday, Braner recommended dismissal of the lawsuit,  saying \u201cthe litany of discovery abuses perpetrated by Plaintiff in this case warrants termination of her lawsuit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Braner said Figueroa engaged in \u201crampant and willful spoilation of evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tentative ruling was approved in a hearing on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Following the judge\u2019s dismissal, Figueroa indicated in a statement to the press that she plans to file an appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nathan Fletcher on an MTS trolley. (File photo courtesy of MTS) A Superior Court judge on Friday dismissed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":129801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,79106,379,38150,79107,3549,7264,20185,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-129800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-grecian-figueora","12":"tag-lawsuit","13":"tag-mts","14":"tag-nathan-fletcher","15":"tag-san-diego","16":"tag-sandiego","17":"tag-sexual-harassment","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}