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Disney Faces Pushback In $300M Pay Equity Class Action Over Allegedly “Inappropriately” Withholding Documents – Update
Less than a year before a trial is set to start, the sprawling class action against the Mouse House could take a turn against the company in a hearing today
A virtual hearing set this morning in LA Superior Court could result in a black eye for the Walt Disney Company and its five-year battle against what is now a sprawling pay equity class action suit. Less than a year before an estimated trial start, Monday’s recently began session finds lawyers for Disney Studios staffers LaRonda Rasmussen and Karen Moore facing off with Mouse House attorneys from Paul Hastings LLP over accusations that once again the Bob Iger-led company has been refusing to hand over requested documents. “Disney has inappropriately withheld or redacted hundreds of documents on the basis of attorney-client privilege and work product protection,” states plaintiffs’ lead lawyer Lori Andrus in a May 16 motion to compel filing.
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