Quibi Legal Fight With Eko, Hedge Fund Elliott Management Gets Personal
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Quibiwinked offline in December, most of its employees have been let go and Roku now owns Quibi’s content library. But Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s ill-fated video streamer is still battling a lawsuit trying to extract more than $100 million in damages from the defunct startup and now, Quibi’s lawyers are suggesting the head of the hedge fund behind the litigation has a personal financial interest in the case.
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In the latest drama in the legal spat, Quibi alleges that Paul Singer, Elliott’s founder and co-CEO, may be mainly interested in backing the Eko suit because his girlfriend’s son works there.
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LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) – California attorneys have asked for and received more than $1.1 million for bringing a class action lawsuit over the medical and mental health care in Santa Barbara County jails.
Los Angeles federal judge George Wu on Feb. 1 approved the request of lawyers at Prison Law Office in Berkeley and King & Spalding in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Their request for $1,132,809 was unopposed by the defendant.
The order signed by Wu says the lawyers spent about five years investigating and litigating the case.
“Plaintiffs sought to address the medical and mental health care provided to people in Defendants’ jail facilities including discrimination against people with disabilities, suicide prevention policies and practices, the misuse and overuse of solitary confinement and deficiencies in the jail’s overcrowded, understaffed and unsanitary facilities,” the order says.
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) – A federal judge has refused to impose an all-trades-all-the-time restraining order against the stock-trading app Robinhood in one of the many lawsuits recently filed against it.
Robinhood, an online stock broker, has been hit with a wave of lawsuits over its recent handling of stock trades in Gamestop, AMC Theaters and Blackberry.
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) – A California county is suing a gym that is allegedly violating social-distancing orders targeting the Southern California Region.