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    Rep Report for June 26, 2015

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    Dattner Dispoto and Associates has booked DP clients Bob Gantz, ASC, David Stockton, ASC, Stephen St. John, Ken Glassing and Michael Wale, CSC for varied TV assignments. Stockton is set to shoot Supergirl (season 1) for CBS. Gantz will take on Limitless (season 1) or CBS. St. John will lens CSI: Cyber (season 2) for CBS. Glassing will shoot Scorpion (season 2) also for CBS. And Wale takes on Izombie (season 2) for The CW….

    Two company veterans, Ed Erhardt and Justin Connolly, have been elevated to key positions within ESPN and Disney Media Networks, respectively. Erhardt has been named president, global sales & marketing. His new role includes oversight of consumer marketing, research and advertising sales business operations.  In addition to leading a sales team that provides marketers with an array of multimedia and marketing platforms across the ESPN umbrella, Erhardt will be responsible for developing an insights-driven marketing and data organization supporting advertising sales. Erhardt will report to John Skipper, ESPN president and co-chairman, Disney Media Networks. Meanwhile Connolly has been promoted to EVP, Disney & ESPN affiliate sales and marketing.  In this role, Connolly will oversee all aspects of domestic distribution and affiliate marketing including affiliate-related business operations for Disney and ESPN Media Networks such as ABC Family, Disney Channel, Disney Junior, Disney XD, Fusion, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNEWS, ESPN Deportes, ESPNU, ESPN Classic, ESPN Goal Line, ESPN Buzzer Beater, ESPN Bases Loaded, Longhorn Network, SEC ESPN Network, and related Watch, HDTV, video-on-demand, interactive television and retransmission consent agreements for The Walt Disney Company’s eight-owned ABC stations. Connolly will report to Skipper and Ben Sherwood, president, Disney/ABC Television Group and co-chairman, Disney Media Networks, working closely with Ben Pyne, president, global distribution, Disney Media Networks….

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    Supreme Court Allows Multibillion-Dollar Class Action Lawsuit To Proceed Against Meta

    Friday, November 22, 2024

    The Supreme Court is allowing a multibillion-dollar class action investors' lawsuit to proceed against Facebook parent Meta, stemming from the privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm.

    The justices heard arguments in November in Meta's bid to shut down the lawsuit. On Friday, they decided that they were wrong to take up the case in the first place.

    The high court dismissed the company's appeal, leaving in place an appellate ruling allowing the case to go forward.

    Investors allege that Meta did not fully disclose the risks that Facebook users' personal information would be misused by Cambridge Analytica, a firm that supported Donald Trump 's first successful Republican presidential campaign in 2016.

    Inadequacy of the disclosures led to two significant price drops in the price of the company's shares in 2018, after the public learned about the extent of the privacy scandal, the investors say.

    Meta spokesman Andy Stone said the company was disappointed by the court's action. "The plaintiff's claims are baseless and we will continue to defend ourselves as this case is considered by the District Court," Stone said in an emailed statement.

    Meta already has paid a $5.1 billion fine and reached a $725 million privacy settlement with users.

    Cambridge Analytica had ties to Trump political strategist Steve Bannon. It had paid a Facebook app developer for access to the personal information of about 87 million Facebook users. That data was then used to target U.S. voters during the 2016 campaign.

    The lawsuit is one of two high court cases involving class-action lawsuits against tech companies. The justices also are wrestling with whether to shut down a class action against Nvidia.... Read More

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