A joint movement filed by Janel Grant, Vince McMahon, and WWE has been granted by a choose, permitting a lawsuit that was filed in 2024 to go to non-public arbitration per Fightful:
JOINT MOTION FOR ADJOURNMENT
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the events respectfully submit this joint movement for a brief adjournment of the upcoming listening to on Defendants’ Motions to Compel Arbitration and Plaintiff’s Renewed Movement for Depart to Serve Movement-Associated Discovery, which is at present scheduled for June 16, 2026. The events are in energetic discussions relating to a possible settlement to arbitrate the dispute in confidential arbitration that might moot these motions. They search this aid in good religion, to keep away from unnecessarily consuming the Courtroom’s and the events’ sources—and to allow them to concentrate on progressing the potential arbitration settlement. The Events respectfully suggest that the Courtroom briefly adjourn the listening to and permit them to file a Joint Standing Report inside 21 days.
McMahon and WWE have been pushing to maneuver the case into arbitration, citing a clause within the nondisclosure settlement Grant signed with the corporate in 2022, with the previous worker staying it shouldn’t be enforced and that she was coerced into signing the NDA beneath duress.
The lawsuit was filed towards WWE, McMahon, and John Laurinaitis in January 2024, accusing former govt chair McMahon of sexual assault and intercourse trafficking.
Decide Sarah F. Russell, who granted the joint movement, famous that if an settlement has not been reached by July 10, the case will see a listening to in August.
