Comments on: Writer’s Strike Aftermath: NBC and HFP may SUE WGA over Golden Globes http://www.tvjab.com/writers-strike-aftermath-nbc-and-hfp-may-sue-wga-over-golden-globes/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:49:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Alex http://www.tvjab.com/writers-strike-aftermath-nbc-and-hfp-may-sue-wga-over-golden-globes/#comment-1917 Alex Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:23:18 +0000 http://www.tvjab.com/writers-strike-aftermath-nbc-and-hfp-may-sue-wga-over-golden-globes/#comment-1917 Contracts have been pretty much sacrosanct since the earliest days of the republic. When you make promises for consideration, and breach those promises, the law furnishes a remedy, strike or no. Interference with business relations is also a well established common law tort. Actions have consequences, and telling others to go back on their promised word will have a comeuppance of its own. Contracts have been pretty much sacrosanct since the earliest days of the republic. When you make promises for consideration, and breach those promises, the law furnishes a remedy, strike or no. Interference with business relations is also a well established common law tort. Actions have consequences, and telling others to go back on their promised word will have a comeuppance of its own.

]]> By: Michael http://www.tvjab.com/writers-strike-aftermath-nbc-and-hfp-may-sue-wga-over-golden-globes/#comment-1752 Michael Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:52:17 +0000 http://www.tvjab.com/writers-strike-aftermath-nbc-and-hfp-may-sue-wga-over-golden-globes/#comment-1752 @Scott Yeah, I get what you're saying, but if a court of law decides that a major corporation on the other side of a strike can sue the opposing side for damages after a strike - then striking in this country is over, and unions become completely pointless. It just seems like a lawsuit that no court is going to allow NBC to win, so it's really kind of a waste of everyone's time. @Scott

Yeah, I get what you’re saying, but if a court of law decides that a major corporation on the other side of a strike can sue the opposing side for damages after a strike - then striking in this country is over, and unions become completely pointless.

It just seems like a lawsuit that no court is going to allow NBC to win, so it’s really kind of a waste of everyone’s time.

]]> By: Scott http://www.tvjab.com/writers-strike-aftermath-nbc-and-hfp-may-sue-wga-over-golden-globes/#comment-1751 Scott Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:53:42 +0000 http://www.tvjab.com/writers-strike-aftermath-nbc-and-hfp-may-sue-wga-over-golden-globes/#comment-1751 Well the issue here is that the writers granted exceptions to other awards shows but didn't do it at the Golden Globes to prove a point. Which seems strange to me because the Globes give awards for screenplay writers, so you think they would have granted an exception to honor their own. They cost a lot of people money and not just the already rich, but the "lower" end peole like event workers, the limo drivers, the stylists, etc. It doesn't seem entirely fair that they didn't grant the Globes an exception. I do agree though that a law suit seems a bit much. Well the issue here is that the writers granted exceptions to other awards shows but didn’t do it at the Golden Globes to prove a point. Which seems strange to me because the Globes give awards for screenplay writers, so you think they would have granted an exception to honor their own. They cost a lot of people money and not just the already rich, but the “lower” end peole like event workers, the limo drivers, the stylists, etc. It doesn’t seem entirely fair that they didn’t grant the Globes an exception. I do agree though that a law suit seems a bit much.

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