Tannen Complaint

Case 0:17-cv-60327-WPD Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 02/13/2017 Page 1 of 28
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA
Fort Lauderdale Division
Case Number:
TANNEN CAMPBELL,
Plaintiff,
vs.
MAGIC LEAP, INC., a Delaware

corporation,
Defendant.
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Complaint Jury Trial Demanded
Plaintiff, Tannen Campbell, sues defendant, Magic Leap, Inc. and
says:
Introduction and Summary
1. This is an action for hostile environment sex discrimination and
retaliation brought by Tannen Campbell ("Campbell" or "plaintiff"), former
Head of Strategic Marketing and Brand Identity and, later, Vice President of
Strategic Marketing and Brand Identity, against her former employer, Magic
Leap, Inc. (Magic Leap or defendant).
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Magic Leap is a unicorna startup company valued at more than $1
billion1 even though it has yet to bring a product on the market. It is
developing a mixed-reality headseta headset containing a virtual retinal
display which superimposes 3D computer-generated imagery within the real
world. Magic Leap, touted as one of the most well-funded startups of all
time, employs over 1,000 employees in facilities in Broward County,
Florida; New Zealand; Dallas and Austin, Texas; Mountain View and Los
Angeles, California; and Seattle, Washington. Regretfully, few of those
employees are women, either in the ranks or in management.
Campbell, one of whose responsibilities was to help Magic Leap with
the pink/blue problem,2 had to endure hostile environment sex
discrimination while proposing ways, not only to make Magic Leaps product
more woman friendly, but also to make the workplace more diverse and
inclusive. Campbell was terminated after (and because) she, like the child
in The Emperors New Clothes3 who blurted out that the Emperor was
1
Magic leap was valued at $5.7 billion prior to a critical report published
on December 8, 2016 by The Information, https://www.theinformation.com,
an online source of tech news that reported, Magic Leaps forthcoming product
wont include the technology that has dazzled people in private
demonstrations. Since then, Magic Leap stock has taken a 20 percent plunge
in the secondary market.
2
The pink/blue problem is a term used by Magic Leap internally to
define its marketing problem: the company is a large group of men designing
a device for men that doesnt appeal to women; the only solution the company
has been able to come up with is to make a pink version of the product.
3
The Emperors New Clothes is a short story written by Hans Christian
Andersen, about two weavers who promise an emperor a new suit of clothes
(continued...)
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naked, challenged Magic Leaps CEO, Rony Abovitz, to acknowledge the
depths of misogyny in Magic Leaps culture and take steps to correct an
gender imbalance that negatively affects the companys core culture and
renders it so dysfunctional it continues to delay the launch of a product that
attracted billions of investment dollars. Campbell also raised concerns that
what Magic Leap showed the public in marketing material was not what the
product actually could doadmonitions ignored in favor of her male
colleagues assertions that the images and videos presented on Magic Leaps
website and on YouTube were aspirational, and not Magic Leaps version
of alternate facts.
Campbell sues pursuant to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as
amended (Title VII), for damages, including punitive damages; equitable
relief including reinstatement or front pay; and her costs, including
reasonable attorneys fees.
Jurisdiction and Venue
2. This action arises under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,
as amended, 42 U.S.C. 2000e, et seq. (Title VII) Jurisdiction is founded
on 28 U.S.C. 1331 and 1343(a)(4) and 42 U.S.C. 2000e-5(f)(3). The
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(...continued)
that they say is invisible to those who are unfit for their positions or
hopelessly stupid. The weavers mime dressing the Emperor. When the
Emperor parades before his subjects in his new clothes, the Emperors
ministers and the towns people before whom he parades, as well as the
Emperor himself, cannot see the clothes but pretend they can for fear that
they will be seen as unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent. Finally,
a child cries out, But he isnt wearing anything at all!
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Court has jurisdiction to grant declaratory and further relief pursuant to 28
U.S.C. 2201 and 2202.
3. Venue is proper in the Fort Lauderdale Division of the Southern
District of Florida pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 1391(b) because the claims arose
there and Magic Leaps principal place of business is in Broward County,
Florida.
Parties
4. Campbell, at all times material, was protected by Title VII
because:
a. she is a woman who suffered discrimination; and
b. she opposed what she reasonably believed to be unlawful
under Title VII.
5. Magic Leap is a Delaware corporation, the principal office of
which is in Florida, that employs more than 501 persons. It is an
employer as envisioned by 42 U.S.C. 2000e(b).
Satisfaction of Conditions Precedent
6. Campbell filed a charge of discrimination with the EEOC on or
about December 21, 2016. The EEOC issued Campbell a Notice of Right to
Sue dated February 8, 2017, within 90 days of her receipt of which she is
filing this action.
7. All other conditions precedent have been satisfied or waived.
Applicable Statutory Provisions
8. Title VII provides at 42 U.S.C. 2000e-2(a):
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It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer
(1) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual,

or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect
to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of
employment, because of such individuals ... sex ...; or
(2) to limit, segregate, or classify his employees ... in any

way which would deprive or tend to deprive any individual of
employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect his
status as an employee, because of such individuals ... sex....
9. Title VII further provides at 42 U.S.C. 2000e-3(a):
Discrimination for making charges, testifying,

assisting, or participating in enforcement proceedings. It
shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to
discriminate against any of his employees ... because he has
opposed any practice made an unlawful employment practice by
this title, ....
General Allegations
Magic Leap hires Campbell to help with the pink/blue problem.
10. Campbell, who formerly was a creative director for a digital
advertising agency, was hired by Magic Leap in April 2015 as Head of
Strategic Marketing and Brand Identity by its CEO, Rony Abovitz.
11. Abovitz, who founded Magic Leap in 2011, interviewed Campbell
in March 2015 after she applied for a job with Magic Leap. During the
interview, Campbell joked that all of advertising was a boys club. Abovitz
replied that tech was the same way, but he wanted his company to be
different, and asked Campbell if she could help with that. Campbell happily
responded that she could.
12. Magic Leap had not a single woman in leadership at the time it
hired Campbell, and the company was designing a product and experience,
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that company leadership recognized was designed for men. All the
engineers and others in predominately-male Magic Leap could conceive of
to make the product female friendly was to produce a version in pink.
Abovitz articulated one of his reasons for hiring Campbell: She can help
with the pink/blue problem.
Magic Leap was run by Abovitz sycophants.
13. Magic Leap is run by people comprised largely of Abovitz
sycophants including:
a. Henk Vlietstra, Chief Administrative Office, who despite no
formal training in human resources, functions as the companys chief
human resources officer. Vlietstra rarely disagrees with Abovitz; he
alsoby ineptitude, ignorance or unwillingness to press Abovitzhas done
and failed to do things that have allowed a corporate culture inhospitable to
women to develop and persist. For example:
i. Vlietstra has not issued a company handbook and no
articulated official policies exist prohibiting illegal discrimination,
harassment and retaliation exist within Magic Leap other than self-serving
tweets posted by Abovitz designed make himself appear in a favorable light.
ii. Vlietstra has not instituted programs or made the
right hires to fix major cultural issues at Magic Leap. For example, unlike
virtually every employer with a website, the Magic Leap website nowhere
states that it is an equal opportunity employer and wants women to be
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among the Wizards it is seeking in the Wizards Wanted section of its
website. Indeed, given that a wizard generally is defined as a man who
has magical powers, and virtually without exception images of wizards are
male, Magic Leaps recruiting verbiage contains a not-so-subtle women-
need-not-apply message.
iii. Despite the substantial workforce, Vlietstra did not
hire a director of diversity when major complaints from all protected
classes, including women, arose.
b. Scott Henry, CFO, is the kind of man who sits a little too
close to women and makes them feel uncomfortable with his body
language, flirting and objectification. He generally treats women as objects
of beauty (or not) rather than co-workers worthy of respect. He is a bully
and when he does not get his way, he belittles his adversary.
c. Eric Akerman, Vice President of IT, is a high school buddy
of Abovitz. He is a loud and outspoken and several misogynistic comments
have emanated from his department and from him.
d. Mark Albert, General Counsel, is a transactional attorney
whose primary focus has been on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital
financings, and initial public offerings, not employment law.
e. Rachna Bhasin, a New Zealander hired in fall 2015, is
Chief Business Officer. She is the perfect Magic Leap female employee: she
went Harvard, never disagrees with Abovitz and always does Abovitzs
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bidding even when common sense or her own experience run counter. She
makes the company appear diverse and inclusive although it is not.
14. At all material times, the employees identified in paragraph 13
were working within the course and scope of their employment and
authority.
Campbell prepared a presentation that describes Magic Leaps

gender problem and proposed solutions, which Abovitz ignored.
15. In the first few months that Campbell worked for Magic Leap, in
addition to her regular work, she put together an approximately 50-slide
PowerPoint presentation (deck) about gender diversity statistics across
the tech industry, as well as at Magic Leap, plus ideas of things Magic Leap
could do to improve diversity in its workplace and make it more woman
friendly.
16. For example, while only 30 percent of total jobs and 13 percent
of engineering jobs in tech are held by women, and only three percent of
leadership positions, Magic Leaps track record was even worse: in addition
to having no women in leadership positions, only 14 percent of its
employees (including clerical, human resources and marketing) and three
percent of its engineers were female. As Campbell showed in one slide in
her deck, Magic Leap got an F in gender equality and equal employment
opportunity.
17. The deck also highlighted reasons why Magic Leap should care
about diversity, both in its workplace and with regard to marketing its
product, including:
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a. statistics demonstrating that companies who maintain
gender diversity and employ women in leadership roles see greater return
on their investments across the board, and
b. statistics showing that women make tech buying decisions
for the household, comprise the majority of gamers and use technology
more often than men.
18. Campbell proposed ideas for the short term that could be
implemented immediately, including:
a. creating and appending an Equal Pay Guarantee stamp
or seal on all Magic Leaps position descriptions in recruiting material and
elsewhere, evidencing Magic Leaps commitment to equal pay for equal
work within the same tier;
b. fishing where the fish are by recruiting employees from
a list of colleges, provided by Campbell, with the highest number of women
in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) departments;
c. assigning a recruiter whose only job would be partner
placement helping the husbands and partners of women job applicants
who were not the primary earners in their households get a great job, too,
thus making moving to Florida easier;
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d. implementing a gender-focused Rooney Rule4 in
recruiting, requiring that for every five candidates brought in, two must be
women and must be interviewed and considered; and
e. demonstrating a commitment to encouraging young girls
interest in tech education by replacing the swagT-shirts, notebooks and
the likehanded out to important visitors with a donation in the important
visitors name to Girls Who Code, an organization devoted to overcoming
the gender gap in tech jobs.
19. Campbell also proposed mid-term goals that could be
implemented in the next six-months-to-a-year including:
a. creating an internal mentorship program pairing men with
women;
b. increasing paternity leave to show that Magic Leap values
a mans role in child caregiving and allows busy moms to return to work
sooner if they choose;
c. tying diversity to extra bonuses, e.g., giving a department
head an additional bonus for increasing gender diversity;
d. implementing mandatory unconscious bias training for
leadership;
4
The Rooney Rule is a National Football League policy that requires
league teams to interview minority candidates for head coaching and senior
football operation jobs. It is sometimes cited as an example of affirmative
action, though there is no quota or preference given to minorities in the hiring
of candidates.
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e. creating parents guides for cities where Magic Leap had
offices, and listing recommended doctors, babysitters, etc. for newcomers;
and
f. establishing internships for female students to code/build
for mixed reality.
20. Finally, Campbells presentation proposed long-term goals,
including:
a. having an onsite daycare facility;
b. sponsoring an internal Girls Who Code project, where girls
from the program are mentored and taught mixed reality technology onsite;
c. creating inviting and private mom rooms where nursing
mothers could pump breast milk;
d. donating to the organizations that made the biggest
difference in solving the pipe flow problemthe fact that few women
apply for tech jobs; and
e. establishing a speaker series at Magic Leap that brings in
techs most successful female thinkers, e.g., Sheryl Sandberg and Meg
Whitman.5
5
Sandberg is the COO of Facebook and the author of Lean In: Women,
Work, and the Will to Lead. Time magazine named her as among the 100 most
influential people in the world. Whitman currently is the President and CEO
of Hewlett Packard Enterprise; she ran unsuccessfully for President of the
United States in the 2016 primaries. Previously, Whitman held a number of
high level executive positions including as President and CEO of Hewlett-
Packard Company and of eBay.
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21. The first deck was ready for Abovitzs review in July 2015, but
despite Campbells effortsthe meeting was scheduled and cancelled six
timesAbovitz did not meet with Campbell to review the presentation until
February 10, 2016. At that meetingwhich also was attended by Campbell,
Vlietstra and Laura Laugenhaug, Magic Leaps then-Vice President of Human
Resources who has since left the companyAbovitz arrived late and allowed
Campbell to get through only about half of the presentation before
terminating the meeting, and telling her to schedule a second meeting to
finish going over the deck.
22. Campbell attempted three times over the next three months to
schedule a meeting with Abovitz to finish presenting the deck, but each
attempt resulted in the same response from his secretary: this was not
among Abovitzs priorities. After the third time, Campbell got the message
and gave up.
23. Campbell did not speak again to Abovitz about the deck until
September 2016, when she was promoted to Vice President of Strategic
Marketing and Brand Identity, as more particularly described in paragraph
48.
Meanwhile, Abovitz paid lip-service to gender issues and created

the Female Brain Trust Initiative (FBI) and Womens Inclusion
Network (WIN), which did nothing.
24. Abovitz, in May 2016, asked Bhasin to head up a female brain
trust initiativethe FBI. Originally, the FBI was tasked to influence
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product design and content to insure Magic Leap was not designing just for
men.
25. The groups initial meeting took place May 18, 2016 and
included Bhasin, Campbell and five other women from around the company
as well as Abovitz and Gary Natsume, Vice President of Product Design and
a couple of m ale members of his team. Bhasin had not prepared an
agenda for the meeting and no one took notes. Natsume presented a
prototype of the device and its power supply, which was housed in a belt
pack. Women recommended changes to the design, such as not having
the headset connect in the back of the head because such a connection is
difficult for people with ponytails or long hair. The women also
recommended using a less stiff, lighter cable to connect the device to the
belt pack, because the existing one got caught in hair and jewelry. They
also recommended a new way to attach the belt pack, since women often
do not wear belts. A chaotic discussion with people talking over each other
followed. The group made no decisions and none of the proposed changes
were made to the design.
26. Bhasin planned to announce the formation of the groupalbeit
without any goals or supportto the company December 22, but didnt due
to the events described in paragraph 59 below. When planning the
announcement, Campbell suggested Abovitz or Vlietstra make the
announcement to give the impression that the groups formation was an
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important event and not just a womens sewing circle. Vlietstra did not
respond to Campbells request.
27. The FBI, far from being a company effort to support gender
diversity and inclusion, never had any charter, financial support or a true
leader. It was window dressing.
28. Later meetings did not include Abovitz or any of the other men,
but like the first, resulted in no recommendations and no clear path
forward.
And all the while, Magic Leap tolerated sexist comments and attitudes.
29. Campbell, in May 2015, presented several composited images
she had created to a group of people. One of the images depicted a male
and female doctor. One of the members in the group commented that the
male doctor looked like actor George Takei. Another male employee piped
in commenting, Yeah, and look, its Bring Your Wife to Work Day.
30. One of the only three or four core apps that will ship on Magic
Leaps standard headset is a game, Dr. G., that has no female heroes or
lead characters and the one female character, who is in the game back
story, but not the game itself, is a busty woman depicted on her knees
goveling at the heroes feet in admiration. During her tenure with Magic
Leap, Campbell complained repeatedly and to no avail to the games
developer that the game was misogynistic, and included the game in the
her gender diversity deck as an example of what Magic Leap was doing
wrong.
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31. Senior Engineer Eric Adams sent out an email December 4,
2015 through a company email list serv for social activities for Magic Leap
employees and their families, which email bore the subject line, Board (sic)
Wives at home while you are loving it at the Leap, which stated:
Hello Leapers:
My wife is starting a Google group outside of the MagicLeap

locked domain.
It is called Magic Leap spouses and should be findable as such.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/magic-leap-spouses
It is sort of a social meeting place for all the spouses that have
been displaced, alone in the daytime and are new to the area,
would like to have lunch with or just to have someone local to
hang out with when their significant other is slaving away at
work thru-out the 12-Hr day. Or are they just nagging you
because you moved here?
Please forward this Email to your wife if she would like to get
better acclimated to South Florida. The group is not public and
is reasonably private (by email invite/accept) as to not
accidentally disclose any Magic Leap secrets.
The gender-neutral reference to spouses notwithstanding, implicit in the
subject line and the reference to your wife is the assumptionwhich is not
too far from wrongthat all the employees were men with wives who didnt
work outside the home and were alone in the daytime.
32. Euen Thompson, an IT Support Lead, on November 16, 2016,
gave a tutorial to a group of seven new hires, including two women, how to
use Magic Leaps IT equipment and resources. One woman asked
Thompson a question in front of the group and Thompson responded, Yeah,
women always have trouble with computers. The women in the group, in
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apparent disbelief, asked Thompson to repeat what he said and Thompson
replied, In IT we have a saying; stay away from the Three Os: Orientals,
Old People and Ovaries.
33. A female direct report and a male peer told Campbell of the
comments and Campbell immediately went to then-Vice President of Human
Resources, Laura Langenhaug, told her what happened and that she
expected Thompson to be fired. Langenhaug said she would get back to
Campbell, but did not for over a week despite several follow-up calls and
emails.
34. Finally, approximately two weeks later, Laugenhaugs boss,
Chief Administrative Officer Vlietstra spoke to Campbell and told her that he
understood what Thompson did was very offensive, but Thompson was both
humiliated and sorry and would not be allowed to do the new hire
orientation in the future. Campbell asked Vlietstra why Magic Leap hadnt
fired Thompson and Vlietstra responded that he couldnt fire Thompson
because he was African American and there were white men who had done
far worse and if Magic Leap fired Thompson, he could sue them because
he had been fired, but not the white guys. Campbell, outraged, asked,
Why not fire them all? Vlietstra answered: Because we need the white
guys. Theyre important. We need them. I know youre upset, but my
hands are tied.
35. Later, Thompson resumed giving new hire orientations.
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36. Jeremy Liebs, a male engineer in the Mountain View office, in
August, September and October 2016, constantly posted to Slack, a
company-wide messaging platform, comments that were aggressive and
critical toward Campbell and Devin Zimmerman, the woman who runs social
media for Magic Leap whom Campbell managed. Both Campbell and
Zimmerman complained in writing in September and October to Vlietstra,
who responded to Campbell, Were taking care of it, but nothing was
done.
37. Campbell met September 28, 2016 with Magic Leap CFO Henry
and Head of Operations Tina Tuli for a conference call with the CFO and
leadership team at R/GA, an award-winning international advertising
agency that was Magic Leaps advertising agency of record. During the call,
Henry said of the product under development, Im sitting here between two
beautiful ladies. Theyre not going to want to put a big ugly device over
their pretty faces. And I have an office with glass doors, I dont want people
to see me with these beautiful girls with ugly things on their faces. Later,
one of the male R/GA executives on the call asked Campbell if Henry
frequently made sexist comments like he had made. A female executive at
R/GA also was offended by Henrys remarks.
38. Just before the call with R/GA had started, Henry who had
printed an email from Tuli that had a photo icon with Tulis picture on it,
pointed to the picture and said in the presence of Campbell, You know
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what I love most about all the emails you send me, Tina? I get to see your
beautiful smile smiling back at me.
39. Vice President of IT Akerman, on November 8, 2016, told a
large group of people who asked why he voted for Trump that it was
because Melania is hot.
Magic Leap kept women in their place.
40. Women are not seen fit to manage men in any Magic Leap
department (hence their lack of number in leadership).
41. Women are not seen as capable of the engineering jobs closely
tied to Magic Leaps product. Instead they are allocated to the softer
sciences like marketing, human resources and administrative roles.
42. Women were not seen as contributors to the design of the
productthe Product Design department is all maleand the FBI, which
gave feedback regarding the product, was ignored.
43. Women were not treated like part of the team, but rather were
absent from large lunch tables and happy hours of all men.
44. Women were not mentored by senior leadership, who spent
their valuable time with men.
45. Women even were told not to speak up in company meetings at
times, something Campbell never witnessed happen to men.
Magic Leap made Campbell a Vice President only after she asked
to be promoted.
46. Campbell met with Vlietstra at Campbells request on or about
September 20. Campbell never had had a formal evaluation. During the
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meeting, Vlietstra gave Campbell no negative feedback and told Campbell
more than once during the meeting, We love you here and your work
speaks for itself. Validated, Campbell asked for a raise and the title of Vice
President. She also told Vlietstra during the meeting that she still had
issues with leadership and decision makingthat Abovitz was incapable of
making decisions, but rather kept putting things off pending more meetings
and assigning more people to solve the problem, which was one of the
primary reasons Magic Leap could not bring its product to market.
Campbell also told Vlietstra she continued to have issues with gender
diversity, in response to which Vlietstra told Campbell he wasworking on it
and offered to set up a meeting with Abovitz to discuss the promotion.
47. Campbell met with Abovitz on or about September 22, 2016.
Abovitz went over his 24-point description of the ideal Leaper (employee)
in an hour-long monologue. When time ran out, Campbell pointed out that
the purpose of the meeting was to discuss her future at Magic Leap and
Abovitz told her to set up another meeting.
48. At a the third meeting on or about September 27, which
Campbell, Abovitz and Vlietstra attended, Abovitz also asked Campbell how
things were going and she told him she had some pain points around the
product definition and decision making and still had problems with gender
diversity and inclusion issues. Abovitz asked her to elaborate on the gender
discrimination issue. In response, Campbell asked Abovitz to remember the
deck and how it was ignored. She also told Abovitz that misogyny comes
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on a sliding scale from unconscious bias to malicious hate and that she
had seen both at the company and everything in between.
49. As an example of more egregious comments, Campbell told
Abovitz of the Three Os incident and Vlietstras lack of any meaningful
discipline in response. As an example of unconscious bias, she told him of
an IT employee who was helping Campbell a new logo into the email
system. Cognizant that she was taking up a lot of the employees time with
minor changes to get the logo perfect, Campbell apologized for taking up
so much of the employees time, to which he responded, Oh, dont worry, I
get it. Youre a woman and you care that things look pretty. Im a man. I
just get the work done.
50. Abovitz demanded an explanation from Vlietstra why nothing
more had been done. Campbell could tell Vlietstra was furious with her for
bringing it up, and Vlietstra told Abovitz the two men needed to talk alone
about why the issue had not been resolved.
51. By the end of the third meeting, Campbell, Abovitz and Vlietstra
still had not talked about the promotion Campbell had requested. Campbell
tried to turn the conversation to the promotion, but Abovitz was non-
committal. He told her to follow-up with Vlietstra and that well figure this
out. In the days that followed, Campbell followed up with Vlietstra two or
three times.
52. Finally, in early October, Vlietstra told Campbell the promotion
was done. But Magic Leap made no announcement either to her team or
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to the company as a whole. Campbell never was listed as an officer on the
website as were other male vice presidents. Only her title changed and she
received a small raise.
Magic Leap marginalized Campbell after her promotion.
53. During Campbells last four months at Magic Leap, Abovitzwho
always had been pouty and prone to temper-tantrums, began to dig his
heels in even more in the face of dissenting ideas and to explode ever more
frequently into child-like fits of rage, threatening retribution when he didnt
get his way, felt betrayed or was portrayed publically in an unfavorable
light.
54. CFO Henry, on September 14, 2016, told Campbell he wanted
James Temple, creative partner at Magic Leaps advertising agency of
record, R/GA, to join the agency team. Campbell told Henry this was not a
good idea because she already had established and trained the existing
agency team over the last nine months and they were doing excellent work
and because Temple lived in London.
55. Henry told Campbell she was being emotional and sensitive
and accused her of feeling threatened. Campbell denied feeling
threatened and explained her logical business reasons for not
accommodating his request. Henry disregarded Campbells position and
invited Temple to join the team anyway.
56. Abovitz and Bhasin, the Chief Business Officer who had never
met anyone from either agency and had no idea what value they provided,
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in October 2016, fired both agencies Campbell relied upon to do her work:
R/GA and Pentagram. This left her powerless to execute her strategies and
plans.
57. Abovitz, in October, November and December, disinvited
Campbell to senior leadership meetings and told her she didnt own the
brand and, instead, she needed to set up a brand brain trust consisting of
a male comic book artist, the male Vice President of Product Design and the
male Lead UX/UI.6
58. Abovitz, in mid-November 2016, directed Campbell to interview
people within the company about their opinions of the company and the
brand in the hope of gathering some themes that appealed to the inner
company. Campbell protested that they needed to build a brand for a
target audience that would buy the product, not the people in the building
(or Abovitz himself), but Abovitz insisted.
59. Campbell complied with Abovitzs request and developed a
presentation of which she was very proud that she believed perfectly
balanced the targets needs with those of Abovitz that she was due to
present on December 20. Instead, she was called into a meeting with
Vlietstra, General Counsel Albert, her newly hired boss, Brenda Freeman
and another woman from HR and told her position was being eliminated and
her employment was terminated.
6
UX is user experience. UI is user interface.
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60. Magic Leap offered Campbell three-months severance if she
signed an agreement releasing all claims against the company. She
refused, turned in her computer and badge and left the building.
Magic Leaps conscious and unconscious bias against women

created dysfunctionality in the workplace.
61. Due in large part to its gender imbalance and the misogynistic
attitudes and behavior of its male employees, including executive
management, Magic Leaps corporate culture is one of macho bullying,
where womens work and ideas, including those of Campbell, are ridiculed
openly and their opinions are ignored in favor of those of those of their
male counterparts.
62. The macho bullying atmosphere at Magic Leap fosters a
dysfunctional culture which creates chaos and lack of process and structure,
hinders the company from achieving key product deadlines (including
launch, which has shifted back at least 4 times in Campbells 1.5 years at
the company) and, literally, prevented Campbell from doing the job she was
hired to do or achieving the goals she and Abovitz had discussed during her
initial interview: helping with the pink/blue problem or making Magic
Leap less of a boys club.
63. Sadly, because Magic Leap seldom hires and does not actively
recruit female candidates, the company loses competitive advantage to
products like Microsofts Hololens. Microsoft, which employs far more
females on its team, developed its similar product on a faster time line with
more content that appeals to both genders.
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Count I: Hostile Environment Sex Discrimination

in Violation of Title VII
64. Plaintiff realleges and adopts, as if fully set forth in this Count,
all of the allegations in paragraphs 1 through 63.
65. Magic Leap, through its CEO Abovitz and other highly placed
executive officers of the company, caused or allowed the conditions and
conduct described in paragraphs 12, 13, 16, 21, 22 and 25-63, which
evidenced that:
a. women were not welcome in the Magic Leap workplace;
b. women had limited opportunities to advance in the Magic
Leap workplace;
c. womens ideas and contributions were not valued in the
Magic Leap workplace; and
d. women were not viewed as having the skills critical to the
tech world because they were stereotyped as wives, homemakers, sex
objects and adorers of men in the Magic Leap workplace.
66. The conditions and conduct referred to in paragraphs 12, 13, 16,
21, 22 and 25-60 were both subjectively and objectively offensive, and
were sufficiently severe or sufficiently pervasive, or both, to create a
discriminatorily abusive work environment that affected plaintiff in the
compensation, terms, conditions and privileges of employment as
envisioned by 42 U.S.C. 2000e-1(a)(1), including as more particularly
described in paragraphs 46 through 52, 53 through 60, 61 and 62, and
violated plaintiffs rights under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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67. Campbells gender was the substantial, motivating factor in the
treatment of Campbell and other women in the Magic Leap workplace.
68. As a direct, natural, proximate and foreseeable result of the
actions of Magic Leap, Campbell has suffered past and future pecuniary
losses, emotional pain, suffering, inconvenience, mental anguish, loss of
enjoyment of life, and other non-pecuniary losses.
69. Magic Leaps upper management, including its CEO, Abovitz,
was aware both that discrimination based on sex is against the law and of
the gender-based hostility that women who worked there suffered and
countenanced or approved it. Magic Leaps intentional and purposeful acts
of creating and sustaining an environment so hostile to women exhibits
oppression, malice, gross negligence, willful or wanton misconduct,
or a reckless disregard for Campbells rights so as to entitle her to an
award of punitive damages against Magic Leap to punish it for its conduct
and to deter others like it from such conduct in the future.
70. The sex discrimination that Campbell is suffering, in violation of
the statutory rights to be free from such discrimination, constitutes
irreparable harm for which there is no adequate remedy at law.
71. Campbell is entitled to recover reasonable attorneys fees and
litigation expenses pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 2000e-5(k) for her Title VII
claims.
WHEREFORE, plaintiff, Tannen Campbell, prays that this Court will:
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One, issue a declaratory judgment that Magic Leaps practices toward
Campbell violated Campbells rights against sex discrimination under Title
VII;
Two, enjoin Magic Leap and its agents from continuing to violate
Campbells statutory rights under Title VII and to make Campbell whole
through reinstatement, back pay and restoration of seniority and benefits;
Three, enter a judgment for Campbell and against Magic Leap for
damages, including punitive damages;
Four, grant Campbell her costs and reasonable attorneys fees
pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 2000e-5(k); and
Five, grant Campbell such other and further relief as the
circumstances and law provide.
Count II:
Opposition-Clause Retaliation in Violation of Title VII
72. Plaintiff realleges and adopts, as if fully set forth in this Count,
all of the allegations in paragraphs 1 through 63 and 65 through 67.
73. Campbell reasonably believed that the conditions and conduct
she encountered at Magic Leap and about which she complained to Abovitz
and others as alleged in paragraphs 15 through 22, 30, 33, 34, 36, 46, 48
and 49 above, constituted unlawful employment practices under Title VII.
74. Magic Leap terminated Campbell because of her protected
activity in opposing unlawful sex discrimination.
75. The actions of Magic Leap violated 2000e-3(a) of Title VII of
the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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76. As a direct, natural, proximate and foreseeable result of the
actions of Magic Leap, Campbell has suffered past and future pecuniary
losses, emotional pain, suffering, inconvenience, mental anguish, loss of
enjoyment of life, and other non-pecuniary losses.
77. Magic Leaps upper management, including its CEO, Abovitz,
was aware retaliation for opposing illegal gender discrimination is against
the law and countenanced or approved it. Magic Leaps intentional and
purposeful acts of terminating Campbell exhibits oppression, malice, gross
negligence, willful or wanton misconduct, or a reckless disregard for
Campbells rights so as to entitle her to an award of punitive damages
against Magic Leap to punish it for its conduct and to deter others like it
from such conduct in the future.
78. The retaliatory discrimination that Campbell is suffering, in
violation of the statutory rights to be free from such discrimination,
constitutes irreparable harm for which there is no adequate remedy at law.
79. Campbell is entitled to recover reasonable attorneys fees and
litigation expenses pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 2000e-5(k) for her Title VII
claims.
WHEREFORE, plaintiff, Tannen Campbell, prays that this Court will:
One, issue a declaratory judgment that Magic Leaps practices toward
Campbell violated Campbells rights against retaliation under Title VII;
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Two, enjoin Magic Leap and its agents from continuing to violate
Campbells statutory rights under Title VII and to make Campbell whole
through reinstatement, back pay and restoration of seniority and benefits;
Three, enter a judgment for Campbell and against Magic Leap for
damages, including punitive damages;
Four, grant Campbell her costs and reasonable attorneys fees
pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 2000e-5(k); and
Five, grant Campbell such other and further relief as the
circumstances and law provide.
Respectfully Submitted,
/s/ Karen Coolman Amlong

KAREN COOLMAN AMLONG
Florida Bar Number 275565
KAmlong@TheAmlongFirm.com
WILLIAM R. AMLONG
Florida Bar Number 470228
WRAmlong@TheAmlongFirm.com
AMLONG & AMLONG, P.A.
500 Northeast Fourth Street
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301-1154
Phone: (954) 462-1983
Fax: (954)523-3192
Attorneys for Plaintiff
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SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA
CASE NUMBER:
TANNEN CAMPBELL, SUMMONS IN A CIVIL

Plaintiff,
ACTION
vs.
MAGIC LEAP, INC., a Florida

corporation,
Defendant.
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TO: Magic Leap, Inc., a Florida corporation

By Serving Its Registered Agent: Paracorp Incorporated
155 Office Plaza Drive
1st Floor
Tallahassee, Florida 32301
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to file with the Clerk of this Court and
serve upon Plaintiffs Attorney:
Karen Coolman Amlong, Attorney at Law

Kamlong@TheAmlongFirm.com
AMLONG & AMLONG, P.A.
500 Northeast Fourth Street, Second Floor
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
(954) 462-1983
an answer to the Complaint which is herewith served upon you, within Twenty One (21)
days after service of this Summons upon you, exclusive of the day of service. If you fail
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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

MAGIC LEAP, INC., a Delaware

Complaint Jury Trial Demanded

Plaintiff, Tannen Campbell, sues defendant, Magic Leap, Inc. and

Introduction and Summary

1. This is an action for hostile environment sex discrimination and

retaliation brought by Tannen Campbell ("Campbell" or "plaintiff"), former

Leap, Inc. (Magic Leap or defendant).

Magic Leap is a unicorna startup company valued at more than $1

billion1 even though it has yet to bring a product on the market. It is

developing a mixed-reality headseta headset containing a virtual retinal

display which superimposes 3D computer-generated imagery within the real

time, employs over 1,000 employees in facilities in Broward County,

Angeles, California; and Seattle, Washington. Regretfully, few of those

employees are women, either in the ranks or in management.

Campbell, one of whose responsibilities was to help Magic Leap with

the pink/blue problem,2 had to endure hostile environment sex

naked, challenged Magic Leaps CEO, Rony Abovitz, to acknowledge the

depths of misogyny in Magic Leaps culture and take steps to correct an

renders it so dysfunctional it continues to delay the launch of a product that

attracted billions of investment dollars. Campbell also raised concerns that

product actually could doadmonitions ignored in favor of her male

amended (Title VII), for damages, including punitive damages; equitable

relief including reinstatement or front pay; and her costs, including

reasonable attorneys fees.

Jurisdiction and Venue

as amended, 42 U.S.C. 2000e, et seq. (Title VII) Jurisdiction is founded

on 28 U.S.C. 1331 and 1343(a)(4) and 42 U.S.C. 2000e-5(f)(3). The

Court has jurisdiction to grant declaratory and further relief pursuant to 28

U.S.C. 2201 and 2202.

3. Venue is proper in the Fort Lauderdale Division of the Southern

District of Florida pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 1391(b) because the claims arose

there and Magic Leaps principal place of business is in Broward County,

4. Campbell, at all times material, was protected by Title VII

a. she is a woman who suffered discrimination; and

b. she opposed what she reasonably believed to be unlawful

under Title VII.

5. Magic Leap is a Delaware corporation, the principal office of

which is in Florida, that employs more than 501 persons. It is an

employer as envisioned by 42 U.S.C. 2000e(b).

Satisfaction of Conditions Precedent

6. Campbell filed a charge of discrimination with the EEOC on or

filing this action.

7. All other conditions precedent have been satisfied or waived.

Applicable Statutory Provisions

8. Title VII provides at 42 U.S.C. 2000e-2(a):

It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer

(1) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual,

(2) to limit, segregate, or classify his employees ... in any

9. Title VII further provides at 42 U.S.C. 2000e-3(a):

Discrimination for making charges, testifying,

Magic Leap hires Campbell to help with the pink/blue problem.

10. Campbell, who formerly was a creative director for a digital

advertising agency, was hired by Magic Leap in April 2015 as Head of

Strategic Marketing and Brand Identity by its CEO, Rony Abovitz.

11. Abovitz, who founded Magic Leap in 2011, interviewed Campbell

responded that she could.

engineers and others in predominately-male Magic Leap could conceive of

to make the product female friendly was to produce a version in pink.

with the pink/blue problem.

Magic Leap was run by Abovitz sycophants.

13. Magic Leap is run by people comprised largely of Abovitz

a. Henk Vlietstra, Chief Administrative Office, who despite no