CBS Hits Back At ‘Judge Judy’ Lawsuit; Says $17M Paid To Agent “Not Entitled”

CBS Hits Back At ‘Judge Judy’ Lawsuit; Says $17M Paid To Agent “Not Entitled”

Just over a ages afterwards CBS was hit with a absolute accusation over profits from the Adjudicator Judy appearance and her Honor’s $47 actor salary, the arrangement addled aback today. In an acknowledgment filed Friday in L.A. Superior Court to Rebel Entertainment’s complaint of May 14, a somewhat ashamed CBS said basically “no way” because the parties in catechism biased themselves for decades.

“Lawrence and ARL accept never represented the aptitude and did not abundantly represent the producers, whom they larboard absolutely caught in the accident of abortion while they calm millions,” says the 7-page filing from attorneys for Big Ticket Television, CBS Studios and CBS Corporation. Lawrence and ARL refers to aptitude abettor Richard Lawrence and bureau Abrams-Rubaloff & Lawrence, who repped producers Sandi Spreckman and Kaye Switzer, who developed the Adjudicator Judy abstraction afterwards seeing Judy Sheindlin on 60 Minutes aback in 1993.

“Indeed, Lawrence and ARL connected to accept payments for the Project connected afterwards Spreckman and Switzer—the elements of the declared ‘package’ that were in fact represented by Lawrence and ARL—were concluded from the Project,” today’s acknowledgment states. “Seen addition way, the alone ‘value’ Lawrence brought to the appearance was two producers who were accursed during the aboriginal season, and yet Lawrence and ARL connected to aggregate amalgamation commissions based on that declared amount for over 20 years to the tune of about $17,000,000.00.”

Charging in their May 14 filing that they accept afresh been denied profits from the allegedly in the red Adjudicator Judy appearance that are contractually due to them, Rebel Entertainment are the rights brood to Lawrence and ARL.

“I met Mr. Lawrence for 2 hours some twenty-one years ago,” Sheindlin herself said in a account afterwards Rebel filed their potentially multi-millio dollar aperture of arrangement complaint. “Neither I nor anyone complex in the circadian assembly of my affairs has heard from him in 20 years. Not a card, not a gift, not a flower, not a congratulations. Yet he has somehow accustomed over $17,000,000 from my program. My abecedarian algebraic translates that into $8,500,000 an hour for Mr. Lawrence. Not a bad payday. Now accusatory about not accepting abundant money, that’s absolute chutzpah.”

Closing in on 20-years on air as the acerbic judge, Sheindlin re-upped with CBS TV in 2013 and again in 2015 active an continued accord to see her on Adjudicator Judy until 2020.

“As a aftereffect of Lawrence’s and ARL’s inducement, Big Ticket paid Plaintiff about $17,000,000.00 to which it is not entitled, and which should be activated to account any amounts awarded to Plaintiff as a aftereffect of the Complaint, and anniversary and every could cause of activity declared therein,” said CBS’s attorneys Friday, authoritative it bright they intend to hit Rebel in the pocketbook in the courts.

If CBS larboard any cracks for acknowledged sunlight to get in today, this account in their acknowledgment about closed it. “Defendants about and accurately abjure anniversary and every accusation of the Complaint, abjure that Plaintiff has been damaged or afflicted as declared because of any act or blank of Defendants, or at all, and abjure that Plaintiff is advantaged to any abatement whatsoever from Defendants.”

CBS are repped by attorneys at L.A. close Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP. Rebel is represented by Freedman and Jordan Susman in the action. Full disclosure: Freedman has acted for PMC, Deadline’s ancestor company, in a amount of acknowledged matters.

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