Plaintiff, a Republican political operative, had sued the ACU president for allegedly groping him:
In his time involved with the Republican Party, plaintiff "has served political campaigns and political committees as a field coordinator, field director, grassroots director, and political director, among others." While working for one of these campaigns as a political staffer, plaintiff alleges that, "[o]n October 19, 2022, a high-profile person in conservative and Republican Party politics committed a sexual battery upon [him] in Georgia." This sexual battery incident became more public on January 6, 2023, when the Daily Beast ran an article detailing the sexual battery incident, without naming plaintiff, and "[o]ther media outlets picked up the story, and the incident became widely known" [link -EV]. Although the Daily Beast and the other media outlets did not identify plaintiff's name as the victim, plaintiff asserts that "many in the political and journalism communities were aware of his identity."
Caroline Wren, herself a Republican political operative,
