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Month: August, 2024
Bryan Sullivan Tells LA Times that Yelp’s Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google Could “Change the Landscape”
Category: News, Press | Friday, August 30th, 2024 | Comments Off on Bryan Sullivan Tells LA Times that Yelp’s Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google Could “Change the Landscape”
Bryan Sullivan recently spoke to the Los Angeles Times about a new federal lawsuit filed against Google by the popular review site Yelp. The lawsuit accuses Google of violating U.S. antitrust laws, using its algorithm to direct internet traffic away from Yelp, and even taking information from Yelp’s site and making it appear to come from Google.
The lawsuit claims that “Google’s conduct has injured Yelp through lower traffic, reduced advertising revenues, raising Yelp’s own costs, and impaired network effects that come with fewer new and returning users.”
According to Bryan, the suit – which could potentially end up at the Supreme Court – has the potential to change the landscape and public perception of antitrust.
“I don’t think they filed this in order to get a payday,” he explains. “I think they filed this to make a point and to try to change the landscape.”
Read the full article in LA Times.
Eric Anderson Speaks to Fox News About the Arrests Made in Relation to Matthew Perry’s Fatal Overdose
Category: News, Press | Friday, August 16th, 2024 | Comments Off on Eric Anderson Speaks to Fox News About the Arrests Made in Relation to Matthew Perry’s Fatal Overdose
Eric Anderson recently spoke to Fox News about the recent charges brought against five individuals, including two doctors, in the wake of actor Matthew Perry’s death. Eric explains that because Perry was a public figure with widely-known substance abuse struggles, the charges against those in his inner circle are simple.
“If your drug dealing leads to the death of a prominent person, then you will be charged with murder, and it will not go unnoticed,” Eric tells Fox.
“Perry was a beloved celebrity with substance abuse issues that were well known. He was very public about it and his work to stay sober. Here, the allegations are that people close to him, with great access to him, played upon that vulnerability and laughed about it,” he continues. “Even after prior warnings that their conduct of providing and injecting him with ketamine was a serious health risk to Perry, they allegedly kept doing it.”
Read the full article in Fox News.
Eleven Early Sullivan Attorneys Named to “Best Lawyers in America”; Five Named to “Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch”
Category: Awards | Thursday, August 15th, 2024 | Comments Off on Eleven Early Sullivan Attorneys Named to “Best Lawyers in America”; Five Named to “Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch”
Early Sullivan attorneys Eric Early, Bryan Sullivan, Devin McRae, Eric Altoon, David Giannotti, Jeremy Gray, Sophia Lau, Diane Myint Luczon, Christopher Ritter, Peter Scott, and Lisa Zepeda have been recognized among the top lawyers in the nation in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, one of the oldest and most distinguished guides to the legal profession.
The following attorneys earned a coveted spot in the 2025 edition for their work in the following practice areas:
Eric Early: Commercial Litigation; Entertainment Law – Motion Pictures and Television; Entertainment Law – Music; Litigation – Real Estate
Bryan Sullivan: Commercial Transactions / UCC Law; Entertainment Law – Motion Pictures and Television; Entertainment Law – Music
Devin McRae: Entertainment Law – Motion Pictures and Television
Eric Altoon: Real Estate Law
David A. Giannotti: Environmental Law; Litigation – Environmental
Jeremy Gray: Commercial Litigation
Sophia Lau: Commercial Litigation; Entertainment Law – Music
Diane Myint Luczon: Commercial Litigation
Christopher Ritter: Entertainment Law – Motion Pictures and Television
Peter Scott: Commercial Litigation
Lisa Zepeda: Commercial Litigation
Additionally, seven Early Sullivan attorneys were named to “Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch.” This list recognizes younger attorneys who have achieved outstanding professional excellence. The following attorneys earned a spot in the 2025 edition.
Cameron Aronson
Rebecca Claudat
Grace Lau
Brett Moore
Padideh Zargari
“Best Lawyers” is one of the oldest and most respected guides to the legal industry. The selection process is based on a comprehensive peer-review process designed to capture the consensus opinion of leading lawyers about the professional abilities of their colleagues within common legal practices and geographical areas. Corporate Counsel magazine has called “The Best Lawyers in America” “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”
Bryan Sullivan Weighs in on Venu Sports/Fubo Lawsuit for IndieWire and Business Insider
Category: News, Press | Tuesday, August 6th, 2024 | Comments Off on Bryan Sullivan Weighs in on Venu Sports/Fubo Lawsuit for IndieWire and Business Insider
Bryan Sullivan recently spoke to IndieWire and Business Insider about Venu Sports – the new sports-centric streaming service collaboration between Fox, Disney, and Warner Bros. Discovery – announcing their unprecedented plans to have a “finite” expiration date nine years after launching. The preemptive expiration date appears to combat the allegations of antitrust violation from Fubo, Venu’s sports streaming service competitor.
But Bryan explains to IndieWire that a “finite” nine-year term is “not sufficient” to prove this, given that nothing would hold Venu to that timeframe, despite it being laid out in their current agreement.
“Arguing that it is finite is evidence that it does not have a catastrophic impact on competition in the market, but the counter argument is that it can be extended or renewed or renegotiated,” Bryan tells IndieWire. “Saying in a pleading that the contract is finite and pointing to that language about being finite in the agreement is true, but does not bind them from never amending, modifying, extending, or superseding that agreement with a new agreement.”
As the case developed further, Bryan also spoke to Business Insider about US District Judge Margaret Garnett’s recent ruling that Venu’s launch would cause “imminent irreparable harm” to Fubo, thus preventing it from launching in August as planned. Bryan explains to Business Insider that this decision may set the streaming service back several years.
“Fubo definitely has leverage after winning this,” Bryan tells Business Insider. “Any time that you win a preliminary injunction, you’ve stopped an operation of a business. So you do have leverage if the other side is willing to negotiate in any way,” he concludes.
Read the full article in IndieWire.
Read the full article in Business Insider.