Disney Denied Early Review of ‘Mandalorian’ Actor Bias Suit

Walt Disney Co. lost its bid to get immediate appellate review of former “The Mandalorian” star Gina Carano’s discrimination lawsuit.

Disney’s request for immediate review by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit over whether the First Amendment protected its ability as an artistic entity to make casting decisions by removing someone whose advocacy harmed its own expression isn’t purely a question of law, Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett said in an ordered entered Wednesday.

Certifying this question, along with four other issues on free speech, wouldn’t advance the case towards termination, Garnett said. Nor did Disney identify a ...