Exploitation and theft

AUSTIN, Texas — A federal court in Texas dismissed the counterclaims brought by Louis Black, the co-founder of the Austin Chronicle and South by Southwest (SXSW), against a former employee who sued him for allegedly coercing her into sex and withholding her salary when she refused to marry him. His countersuit alleges that she stole “several valuable comic books and pulp magazines” from his garage, but the counterclaim is inappropriate because the legal questions in the suit and countersuit “contain no overlap.”