U.S. District Judge William T. Moore Jr. dismissed the discrimination lawsuit against celebrity cook Paula Deen, the Associated Press reported.
The civil lawsuit was officially dismissed when a deal by attorneys in the case reached an agreement last Friday.
The order closed the case "with prejudice," which means that Lisa Jackson, Deen's employee, would be unable to sue over the issues again. Both sides have agreed to pay their own court cost and legal fees, but no other terms of the deal were disclosed.
Jackson had said in the lawsuit that she worked in an environment where rampant racism and sexual innuendo when she served as manager of Uncle Bubba's Seafood and Oyster House in Savannah.
A June transcript of Deen's legal deposition in June revealed that Deen acknowledged that she oft-times used racial slurs.
"Yes of course," Deen said when an attorney asked her if she ever used the N-word, adding "it's ben a very long time."
A deal to drop the case comes less than two weeks after the judge dismissed the race discrimination claims by Jackson. Deen also said in a statement last Friday that she looked forward to putting the case behind her.
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