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HCA Launches Defamation Suit Against Critics Choice Association
The Hollywood Creative Alliance is suing the Critics Choice Association in response to the org's recent call for members to resign from the HCA.
According to court documents, the HCA claims the CCA has defamed the organization in an “attempt to boycott and steal members of the HCA” and is seeking “preliminary and permanent injunctive relief” along with “appropriate compensatory remedies and fees and costs” in response to the organization’s actions. The suit comes just weeks after the Critics Choice Association announced HCA members would no longer be allowed to maintain membership within the CCA, and those who held memberships to both organizations would need to confirm they’d “successfully resigned from HCA” if they looked to remain a CCA member. In a letter to its members, the Critics Choice Association board alleged to have “evidence that a representative of the HCA has improperly suggested to at least one studio (and we suspect more) that it could influence Critics Choice Awards voting in a way that led that studio to reach out to CCA and request that action be taken to protect the integrity of our awards.”
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