Photo: Trae Patton/Paramount+ On Monday, CBS settled a lawsuit with Seal Team script coordinator, Brian Beneker, who claimed that the company’s DEI policies prevented him from being hired as a writer on the show. In the lawsuit filed in February 2024, he alleged that he wasn’t promoted to the writer’s room “due to his race, sex, and heterosexuality.” He asked for $500,000 in lost wages and for Paramount+ to offer him a job as a producer on the show— despite the streamer already announcing that the show was coming to an end. The final settlement is private and reportedly does not include any changes to their diversity polices. Deadline speculates that the payout for the former employee “was not particularly large.” Earlier this year, Paramount rolled back on DEI initiatives to comply with Trump’s mandates and to seek FCC approval for their merger with Skydance. They claimed they will no “longer set or use aspirational numerical goals related to the race, ethnicity, sex or gender of hires”; Disney made similar changes in February.