Posted on 04/10/2020 6:02:45 AM PDT by billorites
The decision comes in an unidentified woman's lawsuit against The Trump Corporation and multiple members of the Trump family.
Journalists, litigants and even actor Tom Arnold for years have been trying to get their hands on unaired footage from The Celebrity Apprentice that allegedly incriminates Donald Trump — and on Thursday a New York federal judge ordered MGM to hand over tapes in a lawsuit over an alleged multilevel marketing scam. Whether they're those tapes remains to be seen.
During a Thursday teleconference, U.S. District Judge Lorna G. Schofield told the studio it has to find a way to give plaintiffs access to footage from two episodes related to their suit. In October 2018, four unidentified individuals filed a class action complaint against Trump, The Trump Corporation, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump. They claim the Trumps convinced people to become independent business owners for ACN Opportunity, which was promoted by the Trumps in various mediums, including on episodes of Celebrity Apprentice, without disclosing that their endorsements of the company were paid.
The decision was first reported by Bloomberg and has been confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter. This comes on the heels of Schofield's decision Wednesday to deny the defendants' motion to compel arbitration. While the plaintiffs did sign an arbitration agreement with ACN, Schofield found the Trumps weren't a party to that contract. She also found that, even if that weren't the case, the Trumps waived their right to arbitrate by waiting too long to file their motion to compel. (Read that opinion here.)
“With last night’s opinion and today’s rulings, the Court has cleared away a number of remaining obstacles created by the defendants and third parties to proper discovery in this case," plaintiffs' attorney Roberta Kaplan said Thursday in a statement to THR. "We look forward to continuing to gather the evidence to deliver justice for our brave clients, and thousands of others like them who were defrauded by the Trumps.”
A rep for MGM has not yet replied to a request for comment; neither has the attorney for the Trumps. In a February filing, MGM argued the tapes weren't relevant because the complaint is centered on what actually aired on television and it would be a tremendous burden to search through "hundreds of hours of video footage" that's stored "in obsolete formats." It also characterized the request as a "speculative fishing expedition."
Former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos, who accuses Trump of sexually assaulting her in 2007, is also fighting to get unaired footage in her defamation lawsuit. Multiple former contestants, including Arnold and Penn Jillette, have said Trump regularly made sexist and "racially insensitive" comments on set.
Bammy appointee.
Scumbag democrats never, ever, ever stop.
Republicans can’t ever seem to even get started.
An “an unidentified woman’s lawsuit against The Trump Corporation and multiple members of the Trump family.”??...In an election year??...Wow what’re the odds? /s/
WOW. Despicable.
Impeachment 3.0
WWHD? (What Would Hillary Do?)
Yah, there probably is some truth here as to something being an impeachable offense. My brother-in-law’s great uncle’s dog groomer believed she saw Trump spitting on the side walk and jay walking, even claims to have a video of it. This should get him impeached.
Again we see that laws are for the little people and “equality for all” means that some people are more equal than others.
Here comes. Everything being thrown at him including the kitchen sink.
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
ah...…….. what unaired footage.. we didn’t keep unaired footage.
ah...…….. what unaired footage.. we didn’t keep unaired footage.
Sorry,we seem to have lost the tapes
Not gunna happen. Stuff only gets lost if the defendant has a D after their name.
Tom Arnold, accusing Trump?
Watta laugh.
Ask his ex —— Roseann Barr—— about the scams Arnold pulled on her... and others.
Are you saying that they would be wiped, like with a cloth?
Oh, no! Not another lawsuit!!!!
The only tapes were the ones discussing golf and grandchildren and aren’t responsive to the request. We wiped them with a rag and there are no others.
Produce all of the footage with an Attorneys’s Eyes Only stipulation, and let the Plaintiff’s lawyers spend $100s of thousands having low level lawyers watch hundreds (thousands?) of hours of video.
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