CECILE ALCH et al., Petitioners,
v.
THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent. TIME WARNER ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY et al., Real Parties in Interest.
Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Eight.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
August 14, 2008.
August 14, 2008.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Sprenger & Lang, Paul C. Sprenger, Michael D. Lieder, Steven M. Sprenger; Schwartz, Steinsapir, Dohrmann & Sommers, Dolly M. Gee, Henry M. Willis; Kator, Parks & Weiser, Maia Caplan, David Weiser, Jeremy D. Wright; AARP Foundation Litigation, Thomas W. Osborne, Daniel B. Kohrman, Barbara Jones; Robert S. Gerstein and Daniel Wolf for Petitioners.
Brad Seligman, Jocelyn D. Larkin and Alvaro D. Soria for The Impact Fund, Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California, Equal Rights Advocates, and Public Advocates, Inc., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.
No appearance for Respondent.
Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, William L. Cole, Kevin E. Gaut and Seth E. Pierce for Real Parties in Interest Time Warner Entertainment Company, L.P., et al., The Carsey-Werner Company, LLC, et al., DreamWorks SKG TV LLC and Fox Entertainment Group, Inc., et al.
Christensen, Glaser, Fink, Jacobs, Weil & Shapiro, Patricia L. Glaser, Mark L. Block and Scott E. Gizer for Real Party in Interest The Endeavor Agency, LLC.
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Paul Grossman, William S. Waldo and Michele A. Freedenthal for Real Parties in Interest The Walt Disney Company, ABC, Inc., Walt Disney Pictures and Television, Touchstone Television Productions, LLC, Miramax Film Corp., and Buena Vista Television.
Proskauer Rose, Anthony J. Oncidi and Robert H. Horn for Real Party in Interest William Morris Agency, LLC.
Morgan Lewis & Bockius, George A. Stohner, Amy B. Pinske and Anne M. Brafford for Real Parties in Interest CBS Corporation, CBS Broadcasting Inc., UPN, Aaron Spelling Productions, Inc., Spelling Entertainment Group, Spelling Entertainment LLC, Spelling Television Inc., Big Ticket Television Inc., and Big Ticket Productions Inc.
Munger, Tolles & Olson, Glenn D. Pomerantz, Katherine M. Forster and Lika C. Miyake for NBC Universal, Inc., NBC Studios, Inc., Universal Studios, Inc., Universal Television Group, LLC, Universal Television Entertainment, LLC, Universal Television Enterprises, LLLP, and Universal Studios Network Programming as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Parties in Interest.
Lavely & Singer, John H. Lavely, Jr., Martin D. Singer and Charles J. Harder for nonparty objectors Richard Wolf, Darren Star, David Crane, Marta Kauffman, Kevin Bright, Greg Daniels, Glenn Gordon Caron, Wes Craven, Susan Harris, Paul J. Witt, Tony Thomas, Bruce Helford and Michael J. Fox as Amici Curiae.
Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Eight.
OPINION
COOPER, P. J.
SUMMARY
Television writers filed class action lawsuits against studios, networks, production companies and talent agencies, asserting an industrywide pattern and practice of age discrimination. The writers served subpoenas on third parties, including the Writers Guild of America, seeking data on Writers Guild members from which they could prepare a statistical analysis to support their claims of age discrimination...
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