WWE Plaintiffs Seek Sanctions Over Deleted Messages | Pollock & Thurston
Janelle Grant lawsuit
This past week alone, I filed a police report because I noticed some intimidation tactics online playing out that were potentially going to pose a threat and jeopardize my safety in some way that I could not ignore.
The Appellate Court moved to dismiss [Dr. Colker's] appeal. So he is a bit closer to having to produce those records [regarding Vince McMahon paying Janelle Grant's medical bills].
WWE shareholder lawsuit
If the judge grants this motion, then the judge will be allowed to, at trial, assume an adverse inference. That is to assume that whatever information there was that we can't get access to now, we're just to assume that it would not be favorable to the parties who lost that information.
Nick Khan, who also is apparently using Signal according to these filings, but he also deleted a number of conventional text messages.
If you're the plaintiffs, you now have multiple meetings to point to all before Vince McMahon comes back to announce they are looking at their quote unquote strategic alternatives.
WWE-Endeavor merger
This is a meeting that takes place involving Vince McMahon, Stephanie McMahon, Nick Khan, Ari Emanuel, and Mark Shapiro. And what's interesting about this, this is two weeks before Vince McMahon does his force back onto the board of directors.
WWE Saudi Arabia events
There is an internal message sent within TKO just about basically reiterating what the State Department has said about travel. The State Department has directed everybody who's in the area, if you're a United States citizen, to leave.
ESPN/WWE streaming
Things will immediately get better once they strike their deal with Comcast, YouTube, and Dish, specifically those three that allows viewers to authenticate. If you don't have DirecTV, or you have Comcast and ESPN hasn't closed out their deal yet, well, then you have to pay $29.99. And that is, I believe, somewhat prohibitive.
Warner Bros. Discovery/Paramount merger
It's expected that by the end of this, they will be working with $79 billion of debt. I'm sorry I'm not an expert in the economics of such a thing but I think anyone expecting that there are not going to be some deep deep deep cuts across the board to make sense of this enormous purchase anything could be on the table here.
UFC White House event
We're not going to be making money on this event or exploiting the birthday of our country in any way shape or form. It's going to be a massive celebration.
