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Harvey Weinstein Accusers Want to Ban Him From Disclosing Their Emails to the Media
The Hollywood Reporter ^ | December 14th, 2018 | Eriq Gardner

Posted on 12/14/2018 10:55:45 AM PST by Mariner

The Harvey Weinstein scandal has a lot of moving parts headed towards an important hearing next week that will set the next stage in the criminal proceeding. On one end, Weinstein has been pushing a Delaware bankruptcy court to allow him to recover files maintained by The Weinstein Co. and then permit him to use those emails and other documents to defend himself from sexual assault charges in New York. On the other end, there's still pending civil lawsuits including one class action from his many accusers. On Thursday, those women sounded the alarm about Weinstein's efforts.

"He should not be able to play federal courts in different jurisdictions with diametrically-opposed positions," states twin motions arguing for both a protective order and for the civil action to proceed.

First, the protective order.

It's partly in response to Weinstein's efforts to obtain emails between him and his accusers and then hold up those communications as exculpatory evidence.

"In fact, Weinstein’s criminal defense lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, told Plaintiffs’ counsel he intended to unleash these emails in the media to sway the court of public opinion. Despite these threats, Weinstein has not produced any of the documents with Plaintiffs—and discovery is not open in this case."

(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Delaware; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bankruptcy; bankruptcycourt; benjaminbrafman; delaware; eriqgardner; harveyweinstein; lornemichaels; metoo; newyork; rulesofevidence; saturdaynightlive; saturdaynightvile; scandals; snl; weinstein
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To: Mariner

The whole repulsive “Me, too” movement is basically a mass effort to deny due process to any male defendant in a sex abuse case, even though many of those cases are groundless and brought for political reasons. Harvey needs to get his due process.


21 posted on 12/14/2018 11:49:09 AM PST by libstripper
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To: Mariner

Both the person accepting and offering the bribe are guilty of illegal acts.

There should be outing and punishment of those actresses and actors who offered bribes.
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22 posted on 12/14/2018 12:28:45 PM PST by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: Mariner

For all the girls that came forward I bet there are far more who didn’t.

Does anyone think the ‘casting couch’ was just a myth? I heard about that 40 years ago.

There is even famous actors telling that actress’s resumes would include the letters “DRR” which was known to mean “Directors Rights Respected”... or they would have sex with him.

I am just surprised that with all that freely available ‘tang they had to force themselves on anyone.


23 posted on 12/14/2018 12:52:32 PM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: Mariner

Just being offended can get you a big pay day.

CBS Paid ‘Bull’ Star Eliza Dushku $9.5 Million over On-Set Sexual Harassment Claim
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2018/12/14/cbs-paid-bull-star-eliza-dushku-9-5-million-over-on-set-sexual-harassment-claim/


24 posted on 12/14/2018 12:54:20 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: Drew68

Nailed it


25 posted on 12/14/2018 1:00:44 PM PST by faturism (faturismbut'ty)
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To: SMARTY

Let’s start a me too movement before someone hacks his email/twitter and finds out I’m a ho.


26 posted on 12/14/2018 1:04:54 PM PST by faturism (faturismbut'ty)
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27 posted on 12/14/2018 1:05:17 PM PST by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: Drew68

Remember “The Fappening”?

A lot of those “hacked” photos were meant as enticements for auditions/casting calls, IMO.


28 posted on 12/14/2018 1:06:14 PM PST by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: SMARTY

Bingo!


29 posted on 12/14/2018 1:16:01 PM PST by Amberdawn
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30 posted on 12/14/2018 1:23:08 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Yes, of course they want that, it’s not as if entertainment industry nitwits are addicted to truth, after all, “everyone knew”.

Study finds even feminists are most attracted to THIS type of man (WOKE men hardest hit) [tr]
(I guess this category doesn’t include Harvey)
Twitchy | December 14, 2018 | Sam J.
Posted on 12/14/2018 10:57:31 AM PST by C19fan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3712887/posts


31 posted on 12/14/2018 1:23:18 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: Bratch

Actresses wearing black outfits that are see-thru when flashbulbs go off and they are not wearing anything underneath is another.


32 posted on 12/14/2018 2:42:24 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: Mariner

If Weinstein had been a Republican donor, these accusers wouldn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of keeping their emails private.


33 posted on 12/14/2018 5:14:10 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Buffalo Bob

Malkovich will be starring as Hercule Poirot in a 3 part BBC production titled The ABC Murders.


34 posted on 12/14/2018 5:18:19 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Mariner

Bingo


35 posted on 01/04/2019 9:33:58 AM PST by rdcbn
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