Tensions between veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley and CBS News came to a head earlier this month when the media company fired Pelley from his long-standing post. Said decision came down days after Pelley reportedly had a heated meeting with new series EP Nick Bilton and accused CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss of “murdering” the news magazine show. Considering everything that’s transpired, there’s now speculation regarding whether Pelley might sue his former employers, and a legal analyst has since chimed in.
As of this writing, Scott Pelley himself has not publicly confirmed whether or not he’ll take any sort of legal action against CBS News. All the while, though, lawyer and writer Neama Rahmani spoke to NewsNation’s Jesse Weber Live about the odds of Pelley taking the Paramount Skydance-owned news entity to court. Rahmani – the President of the West Coast Trial Lawyers – thinks Pelley will indeed file suit on the grounds of alleged wrongful termination, and he also theorized about CBS’ response:
