WWE Plaintiffs Seek Sanctions Over Deleted Messages | Pollock & Thurston
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Janelle Grant Lawsuit
Janelle Grant spoke afterward and kind of outlined her time at WWE. She made reference to the allegation that was in her lawsuit about a rape occurring in the workplace in the middle of the day while people were working.
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. I called the police, they took a report. The officer reached out to WWE and to the state. When I got the report yesterday, WWE did not return the police officer's phone call.
WWE/TKO Litigation
This company loves their signal and they sure as hell love not holding on to communications that are vital when it comes to litigation. That is what I'm seeing.
There is that signal chat that is an exhibit in this case where Vince McMahon is talking to Nick Khan over a conventional text message about a conversation that he having and a different text message with Bruce Prichard and Paul Levesque about the main event of WrestleMania between Roman Reigns and Cody Rhodes.
Nick Khan, who also is apparently using Signal according to these filings, but he also deleted a number of conventional text messages.
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.
WWE Saudi Arabia Events
There was 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 in the area if you a United States citizen to leave.
ESPN/WWE Deal
Things will immediately get better once they strike their deal with Comcast, YouTube, and Dish, specifically those three, that allows viewers to authenticate. And until they do, that will affect our audience.
TKO Corporate Culture
We need best-in-class operators that are strong, insightful, intelligent killers, if you will, and really just workaholics. I hate to say it, but we do promote work-life balance. But, of course, that's hard to do.
UFC White House Event
We will not 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.
