A joint motion filed by Janel Grant, Vince McMahon, and WWE has been granted by a judge, allowing a lawsuit that was filed in 2024 to go to private arbitration per Fightful:
JOINT MOTION FOR ADJOURNMENT
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the parties respectfully submit this joint motion for a short adjournment of the upcoming hearing on Defendants’ Motions to Compel Arbitration and Plaintiff’s Renewed Motion for Leave to Serve Motion-Related Discovery, which is currently scheduled for June 16, 2026. The parties are in active discussions regarding a potential agreement to arbitrate the dispute in confidential arbitration that would moot those motions. They seek this relief in good faith, to avoid unnecessarily consuming the Court’s and the parties’ resources—and so they can focus on progressing the potential arbitration agreement. The Parties respectfully propose that the Court temporarily adjourn the hearing and allow them to file a Joint Status Report within 21 days.
McMahon and WWE have been pushing to move the case into arbitration, citing a clause in the nondisclosure agreement Grant signed with the company in 2022, with the former employee staying it should not be enforced and that she was coerced into signing the NDA under duress.
The lawsuit was filed against WWE, McMahon, and John Laurinaitis in January 2024, accusing former executive chair McMahon of sexual assault and sex trafficking.
Judge Sarah F. Russell, who granted the joint motion, noted that if an agreement has not been reached by July 10, the case will see a hearing in August.