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Disney Can’t Stop Justin Connolly Working At YouTube As Court Says Fuhgeddaboudit
Justin Connolly can start measuring the drapes in his YouTube office, a judge rules in a slap to Disney
A LA Superior Court judge this morning pulled the plug on the Bob Iger-run Mouse House’s efforts to hit the pause button on the so-called poaching of recently departed president of Disney Platform Distribution. With attorneys from Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp (for Disney) and Jones Day (for YouTube) in the courtroom, Judge Chalfant put his decision on a reasoning trinity that kiboshed WDC’s desire to hold Connolly to his January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2027 employment contract signed last year: Today’s ruling comes just two days after YouTube clapped back on Disney’s move to stop Connolly from taking his duties of a “special, unique, unusual, extraordinary, or intellectual character, which gives them peculiar value” at his old company to his new one.
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