The hosts of a construction podcast that aired comments about cat-calling and potential sexual assault say they are dropping a $15 million defamation lawsuit against a female carpenter who called out the offensive remarks online. Manny Neves and Jim Caruk, who host The Construction Life podcast, issued a statement Tuesday afternoon, hours after CBC News reported on the lawsuit against Natasha Fritz, the owner of Natural Carpentry. Regarding the lawsuit, the statement says: "We are discontinuing the claim that we had initiated immediately." Emails obtained by CBC News show the men told Fritz they were not interested in doing a podcast episode devoted to that topic. CBC News is reaching out to Fritz, who previously said she couldn't discuss the situation due to the lawsuit against her.

Source: CBC News June 08, 2021 20:46 UTC