NEWS MEDIA NOW PRESS FOR DISCLOSURE.Byline: Dave McNary Daily News Staff Writer The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). and four other news organizations reversed course this week by seeking to make public some confidential documents about Jeffrey Katzenberg's DreamWorks SKG SKG Stichting Kwaliteit Gevelbouw (Dutch) SKG Spielberg, Katzenberg,and Geffen (DreamWorks Studios) SKG Thessaloniki, Greece - Thessaloniki (Airport Code) SKG Smith and Kraus Global . The action comes a week after an attorney for the quintet filed a request with Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Superior Court to keep the documents secret, then withdrew the filing a day later amid protests from reporters and editors at those news organizations. This week's filings - made on behalf of the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Daily Journal The Los Angeles Daily Journal is the oldest newspaper serving the legal community in Los Angeles, California. External links
The latest friend-of-the court filings in the bitter dispute between Jeffrey Katzenberg and The Walt Disney Noun 1. Walt Disney - United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966) Disney, Walter Elias Disney Co. contended the documents were relevant to the question of calculating the value of Katzenberg's claims. Disney has already paid Katzenberg $117 million and the current phase of the trial will determine how much more it will have to pay. ``The declaration and accompanying documents are highly relevant to this phase of the trial because they demonstrate what assumptions have been made about the future of the movie business,'' the filing said. ``They can be compared to the assumptions that Disney experts and Katzenberg's experts have made about the future of the movie business to determine what different assumptions have been made - especially when comparing Katzenberg's experts' assumptions to those of his own company, DreamWorks.'' Disney's experts claimed this week it should only have to pay Katzenberg a total of $161 million to satisfy his claim of a 2 percent bonus for the 10 years he headed Disney's film business. Katzenberg's experts asserted he is owed $578 million. The episode involving the media organizations began last week when prominent media attorney Pierce Pierce may refer to: Places
When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. tactics'' in submitting the documents. The Los Angeles Times, Time and the Wall Street Journal have dropped O'Donnell as an attorney and replaced him with Rex Heinke of Gibson Dunn and Crutcher. Heinke filed the latest brief and Laura Adell, another attorney from O'Donnell's firm, filed a brief on behalf of the Daily Journal and Variety seeking to join Heinke's filing. Heinke said retired Judge Paul Breckenridge will rule on the documents' admissibility ad·mis·si·ble adj. 1. That can be accepted; allowable: admissible evidence. 2. Worthy of admission. ad·mis if Disney enters them as evidence in the trial, which was in recess Friday and is scheduled to resume Monday. A Disney spokesman said Friday he could not comment on the strategies being used by Disney attorneys. |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion