Eriq Gardner
@eriqgardner
Founding Partner and National Correspondent, Puck. I mostly write and speak about legal affairs. Northwestern U grad. L.A. Rams fan. Music obsessive. Signal: EriqG.99
Probably one of the best ledes I’ve ever written puck.news/french-open-...
Jeffrey Epstein’s crazy idea to reform education, which I discovered in an ongoing shareholder case over the Microsoft-Activision’s merger.
Here’s why the culture wars at yesterday’s Netflix-WBD Senate hearing really matter…
I think this guy (no relation) is suing because he signed up for nudity and, gosh darn-it, he didn't get it. Pretty crazy class action. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Some Hollywood news I broke in last night’s WIH newsletter. CAA has lost a big secret arbitration over agents that helped launch Range Media. Read details: puck.news/newsletter_c...
🚨 The Nevada Supreme Court has decided that the Rupert Murdoch trust battle was wrongfully closed and kept under seal. A media group has won a petition and now a judge will have to go through hearing transcripts and court docs to determine what really warrants further sealing.
Why Netflix-WBD may have Hollywood talent lawyering up sooner rather than later. See full newsletter here: puck.news/newsletter_c...
Just in… the first antitrust lawsuit over the proposed Netflix-WBD merger. Injunction sought against Netflix.
As I wrote last week, this is more than a regulatory battle over competition in entertainment. It also has the potential to develop into major shareholder fight: x.com/eriqgardner/...
🚨Paramount Skydance in letter to David Zaslav: “It has become increasingly clear, through media reporting and otherwise, that WBD appears to have abandoned the semblance and reality of a fair transaction process.”
Lots of scoopage in the newsletter tonight including a new and potentially explosive child abuse allegation against Michael Jackson
We don’t agree to a Taylor Swift deposition but we’ve reserved October 20 for you
Nexstar wants to buy Tegna to create a local TV powerhouse. But as I sketched out a couple of months ago, this isn’t going to happen without legal fireworks…. puck.news/a-warners-le...
I wrote about this earlier in the week, but Warner Bros Discovery is ticketed for a trial later this month that should have Hollywood thinking differently about titles of movies and TV shows. puck.news/will-bill-ma...