Big 3 Agencies Win Protective Order In Ongoing Legal Battle With WGA Over Packaging Fees
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deadline.comDavid Robb Labor EditorThe Big 3 talent agencies have won another skirmish in their ongoing legal battle with the WGA over packaging fees – this time over a protective order they proposed that would prohibit the guilds’ in-house lawyers from having access to certain confidential financial and business records that the agencies have agreed to turn over during the discovery phase of the case.Before Wednesday’s ruling, agencies WME, CAA and UTA had expressed concerns that the guilds’ in-house lawyers – WGA West general counsel Anthony Segall and WGA East general counsel Ann Burdick – might use the agencies’ client lists to uncover and discipline writers who have returned to their agencies in defiance of the guilds’ April 2019 order to fire.
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