Sitcom producers all over town will be relieved to discover that the California Supreme Court upheld the no-dead-baby-rape-joke-too-foul sanctity of the writers' room today, ruling that the Friends staff was merely performing their duties when they speculated about the contents of Courteney Cox's uterus, discussed their personal views on the necessity of foreplay, or pitched out unorthodox ideas for Joey's day job:

You may recall Lyle v. Warner Brothers Television Productions, the case that blew the sitcom writer's room door wide open: A female Friends writer's assistant, fired after four months, sued the show for sexual harassment, claiming the show's writer-producers subjected her to a daily barrage of sexually explicit and racist comments (sample complaint: "69. [Executive Producer Andrew] Reich said that [Courtney] Cox's pussy was full of dried up twigs and said that if her husband put his dick in her she'd break in two.") After an LA County Superior Court judge initially dismissed the suit, the Court of Appeal ruled it should go to trial. The California Supreme Court began hearing arguments yesterday, and according to the LAT, so far they seem to be siding with the grotesquely overpaid, wisecracking white guys: