The MLW vs. WWE lawsuit hearing has been pushed back until December.
The U.S District Court, California Northern District (San Jose) canceled a scheduled hearing for this coming Thursday, October 27 in the lawsuit brought by MLW against WWE.
The case’s hearing has been pushed back to December 5, according to PWInsider.
The conference on this date will set up initial dates for the two sides in terms of the discovery process, motions and even an early outline of when the case could go to trial, should it continue that far.
The lawsuit was brought by Major League Wrestling this past January and “alleges intentional interference with contractual relations, intentional interference with prospective economic relations, a violation of the Sherman Antitrust act and more”.
This includes allegations that WWE interference caused the cancelation of a signed MLW deal with FOX-owned streaming platform Tubi and prevented ViceTV from coming to terms with MLW.
The promotion claims that each prevented MLW from acquiring revenue that would have come from those deals.
In response to MLW’s claims, WWE has alleged that they couldn’t possibly do this due to the success of other companies in the marketplace.
The last argument set forth by WWE read:
“Actual disruption of the prospective economic advantage is another threshold element that MLW fails to allege, and which MLW does not address in its Opposition. Based on the Complaint, VICE aired a first-run episode of MLW content, thus showing (i) that negotiations continued for months after the supposed call between a WWE employee and VICE executive, and (ii) that they were not remotely disrupted by WWE.
Finally, MLW does not allege causation and misunderstands WWE’s argument on this point. WWE is not suggesting that one potential cause for the supposed disruption of the VICE negotiations (the single communication with WWE) should be disregarded for another (MLW’s reportedly disappointing viewership). Rather, WWE argues that MLW must allege more facts to plausibly suggest that a call from a WWE employee in June is what caused VICE to terminate its
negotiations with MLW many months later, not any number of other intervening events.”
We will have further updates on the lawsuit when they become available.
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