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Michael Kassan’s $125M Defamation Suit Against UTA Lawyer Bryan Freedman Is Dead; Ex-MediaLink CEO’s Contract Dispute With Agency Moves To Arbitration – Update
Nothing is final yet, but an LA judge seems pretty certain Bryan Freedman's "pathological liar" comment about the ex-MediaLink CEO isn't defamation
Coming off LA Superior Court Judge Kerry Bensinger’s May 16 ruling to grant Kassan’s desire to see the fallout from his abrupt and messy March exit from UTA and the vitial noncompete clause moved behind closed doors to arbitration, things were looking good for the exec heading into a publicly stated return to his comfort zone of Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in June. Things were looking good for smooth operator Kassan until another LASC Judge today decided to tentatively shut down the ex-CEO’s $125 million defamation case against sharp elbowed Hollywood litigator Bryan Freedman. While no final ruling has been issued yet, Judge Daniel S. Murphy made it pretty clear in a tentative released this morning that he thinks Freedman was well within his legal tights under California’s anti-SLAPP law to say what he so bluntly said in the spring.
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