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'Greylisted' Hollywood Writers to Sue for Age Discrimination
Sunday Telegraph By James Langton Summary: Hollywood’s obsession with youth is facing a multi-million-dollar challenge from a group of former scriptwriters who claim they were thrown aside because they are over 40. The writers, once responsible for some of the biggest shows on television , such as Miami Vice, Star Trek and Bonanza, are suing the leading studios in what could end up as the biggest and most expensive age-discrimination action in American legal history. The class-action lawsuit has been brought by a group of 50 writers, with the potential that up to 7,000 more will join. The lawsuit charges 51 studios, network television companies and talent agencies, including Disney, Universal, ABC and NBC, with a "systematic and pervasive pattern of age discrimination," and seeks damages that could total more than $200 million. The writers have hired one of the top employment law firms in America, the Washington-based firm of Sprenger + Lang, which has won several highly visible cases involving age discrimination, including a $58.5 million judgment against the First Union Bank. |
