evidence: A federal judge has signaled that Gina Carano‘s lawsuit against Disney and Lucasfilm over her termination from The Mandalorian will be allowed to proceed as the court considers whether the First Amendment allows private companies to sever ties with employees who publicly clash with their values. [...] Carano sued after Lucasfilm in 2021 announced that she wouldn’t be returning to the series after sharing a post in which she said, "most people today don’t realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews." The post continued, "How is that any different from hating someone for their political views?" She advanced claims that Disney violated California labor laws prohibiting employers from directing workers’ political activity and reprimanding employees on the basis of political speech. [...] Under those two cases, Disney said that the state can’t force employers engaged in "expressive activity," — in Disney’s case movies and TV shows — to convey its message through speakers like Carano who allegedly impair its ability to properly express its values, which it said include respect, integrity and inclusion. The First Amendment, it claimed, entitles it to protect its speech in the Star Wars series from association with views that it and many viewers considered offensive and contrary to its message.