Judge Judy & CBS Triumph In Battle Over Lucrative Library Sale Profits – CB

EXCLUSIVE: 4 years after Judith Sheindlin, CBS and others had been sued by a producer from the early seasons of the Decide Judy sequence and the property of one other producer over income from the large bucks sale of the present’s library, the virtually lucratively esoteric dispute appears to have come to the tip of the authorized street, no less than for now.

“The Court docket, having taken the matter underneath submission on 02/15/2022 for Listening to on Movement for Abstract Judgment, now guidelines as follows: The Movement for Abstract Judgment filed by Judith Sheindlin, Large Ticket Photos, Inc., Her Honor, Inc., CBS Studios Inc. on 03/19/2021 is Granted,” stated a one-page ruling yesterday by LA Superior Court docket Decide Kristin S. Escalante. (learn it right here).

First filed again in January 2018 by Kaye Switzer and the belief of the late Sandi Spreckman, this specific dust-up over income from the lengthy working and now shuttered Decide Judy was set to go to trial on June 6 this yr. Now, there’s at all times an opportunity that the Las Vegas and LA-based attorneys for Switzer and the belief of the late Spreckman might enchantment. However, fact be informed, it’s going to be a steep climb for them to get again on the horse, it you understand what I imply? – particularly after Monday’s complete ruling.

The entire unique case of 4 years in the past was primarily based on an 1999 settlement that noticed O.G. producers Switzer and Spreckman to obtain lifetime funds from the present even when they now not labored on, the 2018 go well with sought just below $5 million out of the short handed $95 million sale of the Decide Judy library to CBS in the summertime of 2017.

What has at all times made this a bit of bizarre even by Hollywood accounting requirements is that regardless of a giant splash on the time and the corporate paying out that just about $100 million, CBS, which is now a part of the newly-minted Paramount International, has been arguing that it by no means truly purchased the precious library again from Sheindlin. The truth is, even in an August submitting final yr, the Sheindlin and the opposite defendants stated issues like: “Sheindlin Defendants are entitled to abstract adjudication of Plaintiffs’ first reason for motion for breach of contract as a result of there isn’t a triable subject of fabric truth controverting that no sale of the Library ever occurred, or if it did, it was ‘topic to the rights’ of Plaintiffs.”

Clear as mud.

Nonetheless, as different fits round income from Decide Judy had been additionally in authorized play (some settled, some not a lot), this case appeared to fade into the background as Sheindlin closed up store on Decide Judy and left her CBS perch after 25 seasons for Amazon and IMDbTV and the lately renewed Judy Justice. This week’s decision of kinds additionally comes as an August 15 trial date over Insurgent Leisure Associate’s $5 million go well with from August 2020 over income from that supposed library sale. With dangerous blood on all sides right here, Insurgent is the “successor in curiosity” to Decide Judy unique packager, expertise agent Richard Lawrence and his Abrams, Rubaloff & Lawrence agency.

Maybe within the context of the upcoming Insurgent trial, CBS had no touch upon the Switzer and Spreckman matter, and representatives for Sheindlin didn’t reply to request for remark from CB. Switzer and the Spreckman belief’s major lawyer Richard Schonfeld of Sin Metropolis’s Chesnoff & Schonfeld additionally didn’t reply to request for touch upon the ruling of yesterday.