Golden Globes Trial: Witness List Includes CBS' L'ensemble des Moonves, NBC's Marc Graboff, and Dick Clark

Getty Images Lawyers for that Hollywood Foreign Press Association and Dick Clark Productions are planning to have an August 30 jury trial in California federal court over TV privileges towards the Golden Globe Honours. If your judge doesn't grant summary judgment for each side, the trial could showcase some interesting witnesses and testimony. The HFPA, for example, intends to call towards the stand CBS Corp leader and Boss Leslie Moonves, who definitely are requested to testify about discussions to create the Globes to CBS and exactly what the network was ready to offer. Meanwhile, 81-year-old Dick Clark themself, who hasn't made a lot of public looks since a 2004 stroke, might show on the witness stand. Before that occurs, each side are showing up beforeU.S. District Court JudgeValerie Baker Fairbank, and installing their arguments one further time. HFPA is again fighting that after it granted privileges to create and license a Globes broadcast nearly 2 decades ago, the agreement wasn't intended to reside in perpetuity. The Globes privileges-holder states its agreement with DCP survived a finite some time and only had 8 renewal options. In the papers towards the court, HFPA takes some swipes at DCP, stating that by declaring perpetual privileges towards the progressively popular and lucrative Golden Globe Honours, DCP Boss Francis La Maina could engineer a nine-figure purchase, a $14 million pay day for themself, and could incur $165 million of debt by giving junk bonds. When the situation reaches trial, HFPA intends to call towards the stand Moonves, Hollywood attorney Frederick Calabrese (to testify about discussions between HFPA and DCP), HFPA people Jorge Camara and Lorenzo Soria, NBCU TV leader of west coast business procedures Marc Graboff, La Maina, DCP Boss Mark Shapiro, Tennis Funnel CFO William Simon, former CAA mind of television business matters David Tenzer, yet others. STORY: Golden Globes Legal Fight Gets Hotter As Each Side Construct Arguments For his or her part, DCP has additionally organized its situation why the word what within the contracts between your parties props up theory it features a ongoing to produce and license the Globes and absolutely nothing the HFPA presents may take back that which was decided to in the negotiating table in 1994. DCP's own listing of possible witnesses includes Clark, former HFPA leader Philip Berk, producer Craig Adelman, attorneysJoel Behr and Bryan Freedman, and a number of people who're stated to become aware of what happened at various HFPA conferences contributing to certain internal HFPA communications. The showdown will even feature a number of Hollywood's greatest star litigators. For DCP, it's a team brought by Ron Olson and Marty Katz. For HFPA, it's a team brought by Serta Petrocelli. E-mail: eriqgardner@yahoo.com Twitter: @eriqgardner L'ensemble des Moonves Dick Clark Productions