LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – The Kardashian family scored a poignant authorised feat on Monday, successfully fending off a $75 million legal case claiming that Kim, Khloe and Kourtney were to censure is to fall of a credit card company that hired them as spokespersons.
The sisters and their mother, Kris Jenner, were sued in January by Revenue Resource Group, owners of the Mobile Resource Card, that purported they walked divided from a treat to publicize a branded prepaid withdraw card well known as the “Karadashian Kard.”
The reality TV stars allegedly concluded to say good things about the card in the press and on amicable networking websites in swap for a prosaic price and a commission of income from customers who sealed up. But they after that soured on the understanding when the card came beneath glow for high fees. They consummated their treat and done adverse explanation about the card.
The company’s business collapsed so it sued in California Superior Court in Fresno, claiming $75 million in indemnification from this purported crack of contract, arguing that the women not usually disregarded a elementary aid treat but a joint company — potentially putting the Kardashian tribe on the offshoot is to contingent disaster of the company.
But the Kardashians rapidly brought an anti-SLAPP suit — a tactic used in California to elude lawsuits that movement out of people vocalization their minds on problems of open import.
That lifted an engaging issue, since the Kardashians were basically indicted of breaching a stipulate by unwell to say certain things about a credit card. Does that meant the legal case is a typical breach-of-contract case (not theme to anti-SLAPP motions) or is it formed on the ladies’ exercise of their First Amendment giveaway debate rights (which would enable the panel of judges to boot the case)?
Judge Jeffrey Hamilton chose the latter: “We do not have a small crack of stipulate action here, looking liberation from the Kardashians of the stipulate indemnification for their crack of same,” Hamilton wrote. “Instead, you have an endeavor to moreover assign the defendants with loss of all other business separate to them, especially scored equally to defendants’ exercise of giveaway speech.”
The panel of judges moreover found that the credit card company expected can’t infer that the Kardashians crushed its business.
“Plaintiff alleges that is (sic) was the promotion that killed off its business and ran off other prospective superstar clients,” the visualisation states. “But it was not merely the Kardashian close e-mail that did it — it was the attack of disastrous coverage before and after their matter about the fees and charges related with the card. In other words, the product’s features themselves caused the complaint once they became clearer to the public.”
The panel of judges has postulated the anti-SLAPP motion, basically dismissing the case. And he awarded the Kardashians $6,825 in attorneys fees. The credit card company’s lawyers did not right away reply to a solicit for comment.
