Friday, March 15, 2013

Huong "Junie" Hoang & 9 others is suing IMDb


Junie Hoang of  Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver and Hoodrats 2 is suing IMDb suing the Internet Movie Database for revealing her age. As casting director's rejected her as being too old

According to her pretrial statement, she won't be alone in attempting to hold the Amazon.com affiliate liable for costing her jobs in Hollywood. Hoang's lawyers want to bring nine other actors and actresses onto the witness stand to testify about their own efforts to get IMDb to remove birth dates.

In total, Hoang plans 19 witnesses and 400 trial exhibits, which has caused Amazon's lawyers to strongly object to a "straightforward" one-to-two day trial potentially getting out of hand.

The actors on Hoang's witness list are Jason Cermak (The Grind), Camille Solari (Boston Girls), Stacey Newsome (The Manchurian Candidate), Joan McCall (Days of Our Lives), Jill Virnig (Little Athens), Mark Anthony Nacarato (Organized Criminal), Mitchell Fink (A Thousand Words), Micah Ballinger (Shadows) and Scott Cohen (One Life to Live).

The lawsuit also seeks to present the picture of IMDb getting actors to submit certain credit information and then using the website PrivateEye.com for the purposes of adding or correcting to its database. Hoang's documents also assert that IMDb has been involved in 10 to 15 legal disputes in the last few years relating to it displaying performers' ages.

Among the other planned witnesses are Joe Kolkowitz at Player's Talent Agency, a records custodian at SAG-AFTRA, and various employees at IMDB/Amazon.

The defendant thinks this is all too much, saying that Hoang has "not provided any justification to extend the length of trial which is a virtual certainty if she is permitted to call 19 witnesses and offer over 400 trial exhibits."

Hoang's pretrial statement is ... http://www.scribd.com/doc/130609433/Hoang-Pretrial

Read More... http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/imdb-lawsuit-actress-suing-imdb-429038



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