A district judge on Tuesday dismissed an effort by the NY Post and its Editor-in-Chief, Col Allan, to stop a lawsuit from a former employee alleging that she was harassed while at the paper and unlawfully fired.

Sandra Guzman sued the Post in 2009 claiming that she had been repeatedly harassed in the newsroom and eventually fired for speaking out against a highly controversial cartoon about President Barack Obama. A former editor for the paper, Guzman characterizes the culture at the Post as racist and misogynistic, calling it, "a hostile work environment where female employees and employees of color have been subjected to pervasive and systemic discrimination and/or unlawful harassment based on their gender, race, color and/or national origin."

As reported in Politico

Among other charges, Guzman alleged that high-ranking Post staffers had created a hostile work environment for minorities. She accused Allan of having "rubbed his penis up against" a female colleague "and made sexually suggestive comments about her body, including her breasts, causing that female employee to feel extremely uncomfortable and fearing to be alone with him."

Another female colleague was "sexually propositioned" by a white male editor who told her, "If you give me a blow job, I will give you a permanent reporter job," Guzman's lawsuit claims. 

Guzman was fired from the Post in 2009 after publicly criticizing an editorial cartoon which depicted the author of President Obama's stimulus package as a dead chimpanzee. Guzman called the cartoon racist, and claimed she was fired for her remarks. In the lawsuit, Guzman alleges that the paper's D.C. bureau chief had stated that the Post's goal was to "destroy Barack Obama."