Hollywood Foreign Press Association v. Red Zone Capital Partners II, L.P. et al, No. 2:2010cv08833 - Document 349 (C.D. Cal. 2012)
Court Description: FINAL JUDGMENT ON PHASE I CLAIMS by Judge A. Howard Matz. (kbr)
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Hollywood Foreign Press Association v. Red Zone Capital Partners II, L.P. et al Doc. 349 DANIEL M. PETROCELLI (S.B. # 97802) 1 dpetrocelli@omm.com 2 LINDA J. SMITH (S.B. # 78238) lsmith@omm.com 3 DAVID J. MARROSO (S.B. # 211655) dmarroso@omm.com 4 O’MELVENY & MYERS LLP 5 1999 Avenue of the Stars, 7th Floor Los Angeles, California 90067-6035 6 Telephone: (310) 553-6700 Facsimile: (310) 246-6779 7 Attorneys for Plaintiff and Counter-defendant 8 Hollywood Foreign Press Association 9 Additional Counsel Continued on next page. 10 11 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 12 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 13 HOLLYWOOD FOREIGN PRESS 14 ASSOCIATION, a California 15 Corporation, 16 17 Plaintiff, CASE NO. CV 10-8833 AHM (FMOx) FINAL JUDGMENT ON PHASE I CLAIMS v. RED ZONE CAPITAL PARTNERS 18 II, L.P., a Delaware Limited 19 Partnership, et al., 20 Hon. A. Howard Matz Courtroom: 14 Defendants. 21 DICK CLARK PRODUCTIONS, 22 INC., a Delaware Corporation, 23 24 Counterclaimant, v. 25 HOLLYWOOD FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION, a California 26 Corporation, 27 Counter-defendant. 28 W02-WEST:6JTR1\406246673.7 JUDGMENT ON PHASE I CLAIMS Dockets.Justia.com RONALD L. OLSON (State Bar No. 044597) 1 Ron.Olson@mto.com 2 BRADLEY S. PHILLIPS (State Bar No. 085263) Brad.Phillips@mto.com 3 MANUEL F. CACHÁN (State Bar No. 216987) Manuel.Cachan@mto.com 4 MUNGER, TOLLES & OLSON LLP 5 355 South Grand Avenue, 35th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90071-1560 6 Telephone: (213) 683-9100 Facsimile: (213) 687-3702 7 MARTIN D. KATZ (State Bar No. 110681) 8 mkatz@sheppardmullin.com 9 WHITNEY WALTERS (State Bar No. 237781) wwalters@sheppardmullin.com 10 SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER & HAMPTON LLP 1901 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1600 11 Los Angeles, CA 90067-6017 12 Telephone: (310) 228-3700 Facsimile: (310) 228-3701 13 Attorneys for Defendants and Counterclaimant 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 W02-WEST:6JTR1\406246673.7 JUDGMENT ON PHASE I CLAIMS FINAL JUDGMENT ON PHASE I CLAIMS 1 2 Pursuant to and in accordance with the Court’s August 8, 2011 Order 3 Granting In Part And Denying In Part Defendants’ Motion For Summary Judgment 4 (Dkt. No. 182), April 30, 2012 Phase I Findings of Facts and Conclusions of Law 5 (Dkt. No. 313) (“Phase I Findings”) and July 24, 2012 Order Directing Entry of 6 Judgment on Phase I Claims and Continued Stay of Phase II Proceedings 7 (Dkt. No. 345), the Court finds that Defendants Red Zone Capital Partners II, L.P., 8 Red Zone Capital GP, LLC, Red Zone Capital Management Company, LLC, and 9 Defendant and Counterclaimant dick clark productions, inc. (collectively, 10 “Defendants”) are entitled to final judgment against Plaintiff the Hollywood Foreign 11 Press Association (“HFPA”) on the claims tried in Phase I of these proceedings. 12 (Dkt. No. 38 (Bifurcation Order).) 13 IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that: 14 1. In accordance with the Court’s ruling on Defendants’ motion for 15 summary judgment (Dkt. No. 182), judgment is entered in favor of Defendants and 16 against HFPA on HFPA’s Eleventh Claim for reformation. 17 2. In accordance with the Court’s Phase I Findings, judgment is entered in 18 favor of Defendants and against HFPA on the Phase I claims in HFPA’s Fifth Claim 19 for Relief for declaratory relief and on Defendant dcp’s First Counterclaim for 20 declaratory relief. The Court declares that: (a) “the extensions clause [of the 1993 21 amendment to the parties’ 1987 main show agreement] permits dcp to exercise 22 options [to produce and distribute the Golden Globe Awards Show] beyond the 23 eight specified for the years 1998-2005 upon any ‘extensions, renewals, 24 substitutions or modifications’ of the dcp-NBC license agreement, with or without 25 HFPA’s approval,” (b) “dcp has the rights to produce and distribute the Golden 26 Globe Awards show through the current term of the dcp-NBC Agreement (2018),” 27 and (c) “dcp also has irrevocable options granted by HFPA to do so for any further 28 -1W02-WEST:6JTR1\406246673.7 JUDGMENT ON PHASE I CLAIMS 1 ‘extensions, renewals, substitutions or modifications of the NBC Agreement,’ with 2 or without HFPA’s approval.” (Phase I Findings at 6:16-21; 62:10-13; 89:2-8.) 3 3. In accordance with the Court’s Phase I Findings, judgment is entered in 4 favor of Defendants and against HFPA on HFPA’s First Claim for Relief for 5 trademark infringement, Second Claim for Relief for false association, Fourth Claim 6 for Relief for breach of contract, and Ninth Claim for Relief for unfair competition 7 insofar as those claims depend on whether Defendant dcp has the rights under the 8 parties’ main show agreement, as amended, to produce and distribute the Golden 9 Globe Awards Show after 2011 without HFPA’s approval. 10 11 DATED: August 22, 2012 __________________________________ Honorable A. Howard Matz United States District Court Judge Central District of California 12 13 14 15 Respectfully submitted jointly by: 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 -2W02-WEST:6JTR1\406246673.7 JUDGMENT ON PHASE I CLAIMS 1 DATED: August 15, 2012 2 O’Melveny & Meyers LLP DANIEL M. PETROCELLI LINDA J. SMITH DAVID J. MARROSO 3 4 By: 5 6 /s/ David J. Marroso David J. Marroso Attorneys for Plaintiff 7 8 DATED: August 15, 2012 9 10 Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP RONALD L. OLSON Bradley S. Phillips MANUEL F. CACHÁN Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP MARTIN D. KATZ 11 12 13 By: 14 15 /s/ Martin D. Katz____________ Martin D. Katz Attorneys for Defendants and Counterclaimant 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 -3W02-WEST:6JTR1\406246673.7 JUDGMENT ON PHASE I CLAIMS
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