‘Judge Judy’ $22M Profits Lawsuit Heats Up With Sizzling Salvos & Dismissal Effort
Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticEXCLUSIVE: It probably won’t show up on Judge Judy’s newly announced court series for IMDbTV, but the multi-million dollar legal battle between Judith Sheindlin and Rebel Entertainment Partners is turning into even more of a bareknuckle brawl.With a history of indirect litigation over the past few years, both sides are now directly flinging terms like “vicious” and “baseless character assassination” at each other – and that’s just the polite stuff.“Sheindlin has been away from an actual courtroom for so long that she’s clearly forgotten the most bedrock legal principles,” Rebel and agent Richard Lawrence’s top tier attorneys Bryan Freedman and Sean Hardy of Freedman + Taitelman said in a