COVID-19 Pushes Start Of Packaging Trial Between WGA & WME, CAA To Summer 2021
“The parties’ threshold discovery disputes and the COVID-19 pandemic have created significant litigation delays, which have caused unforeseeable delays in the discovery process,” lawyers for the guild and the uber-agencies told a federal judge Tuesday. “Whereas, the parties respectfully request a five-month extension of the existing case schedule provided for in the Scheduling Order to account for these delays.
The filing, Constantine Cannon LLP, Winston & Strawn LLP, and Kendall Brill & Kelly LLP and more added. All of which means the yearlong case won’t see a jury seated until August 24, 2021, if and when Judge Andre Birotte Jr approves the joint request. The estimated four-week trial had been set to start in late March of next year. The request is unsurprising as the pandemic has caused havoc the past five months in the federal and state courts, with closures, restrictions and of course overall worries for all concerned about physically being in the enclosed space of a courtroom.
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