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Exclusive: Dan Schneider Lawsuit Against Producers Of 'Quiet On Set' Tentatively Dismissed

Disgraced Nickelodeon producer Dan Schneider has likely lost his libel claim against the producers of the documentary "Quiet On Set"

When the docuseries Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV was released by Investigation Discovery earlier this year, the program sparked a lot of interest from viewers and questions about the behavior of longtime Nickelodeon producer Dan Schneider during his time at the network. Slander is a “false and unprivileged publication, orally uttered,” which “charges any person with a crime, or with having been indicted, convicted or punished for a crime,” or tends to injure him with respect to his “office, profession, trade or business.” Today the complaint was tentatively stricken by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Ashfaq G. Chowdhury, who wrote that the ultimate reason for dismissal centered around the case law for California Civil Code 44, which requires the plaintiff to not only prove libel, but also provide proof that the facts at dispute are not true. Schneider attorney Gerry Silver, a partner at Sullivan and Worcester, argued that it did, citing various social media comments from YouTube videos and tweets on X as indications that confusion by the viewers was likely.

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