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Entertainment & Sports

Apr. 30, 2019

Studio attorneys seek to vacate arbitrator’s $128 million award

Pitting the power of the arbitrator against the arbitration agreement, attorneys for Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. argued Monday a neutral overstepped his bounds with a $128 million punitive damage award.

Pitting the power of the arbitrator against the arbitration agreement, attorneys for Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. argued Monday a neutral overstepped his bounds with a $128 million punitive damage award.

Seeking to vacate the sizable punitive damage award, which comprised the bulk of the $179 million total award issued In February, Fox counsel Daniel M. Petrocelli of O'Melveny & Myers LLP said the language of the plaintiffs' co...

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