DCP seeks reconsideration in Globes dispute

Having a trial pending within the privileges towards the Golden Globes, Dick Clark Prods. is asking a federal court judge to reconsider her decision to not render summary judgment over most of the issues in the dispute using the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. U.S. District Judge Valerie Baker Fairbank ruled August. 8 that because there have been "numerous genuine disputes of fabric fact," the HFPA's situation against longtime producer DCP could proceed. The situation focuses on a clause inside a 1993 pact that made an appearance to provide DCP "perpetual privileges" to create the telecast as lengthy as it may still land a broadcast cope with NBC. The non-jury trial is scheduled to begin on Sept. 6, having a final pretrial conference scheduled for August. 25. Inside a filing on Monday, lawyers for DCP requested that Fairbank reconsider her decision the HFPA's claims aren't barred through the statute of restrictions. Fairbank ruled the HFPA was still being inside the time period to launch suit since the dispute came about after DCP signed a lengthy-term cope with NBC last October. The HFPA sued in November, declaring the new NBC deal is invalid because DCP didn't obtain its consent. But lawyers for Dick Clark Prods. contend that, due to the statute of restrictions, the HFPA has lengthy since passed time that can raise among its chief claims. The HFPA is quarrelling that it is prexy in 1993, Mirjana Van Blaricom, behaved beyond her authority when she signed the 1993 pact, an amendment for an earlier contract. Contact Ted Manley at ted.manley@variety.com