From:
LEAD PLAINTIFF WILLIAM
RICHERT,
WILLIAM RICHERT VS
WRITERS GUILD OF
AMERICA, et. al.
richertwilliam@mac.com
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE
OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES –
CENTRAL CIVIL WEST
CASE NO: BC339972
DECLARATION OF WILLIAM RICHERT - PLAINTIFF’S OPPOSITON TO ATTORNEY’S MOTION FOR
ADDITIONAL FEES
Hearing:
Date: August 9, 2012
Time: 9:30 AM
Place: Dept 311
Action filed: Sept. 16, 2005
FILED LA SUPERIOR COURT
AUGUST 3, 2012
AUGUST 3, 2012
TO: ATTORNEYS FOR DEFENDANT AND PLAINTIFF
HONORABLE JOHN
SHEPARD WILEY JR.
DEPT 311
LA SUPERIOR COURT
600 Commonwealth
Avenue
Los Angeles,
California
via email and Hand
Delivery
cc: "All
American writers" represented in this lawsuit.
cc: Counsel
Neville Johnson & Paul Kiesel for Plaintiff and Tony Segall for WGAw
RE: CLASS REPRESENTATIVE
WILLIAM RICHERT RESPECTFULLY ASKS COURT TO DENY COUNSEL'S MOTION FOR ADDITIONAL
FEES.
REQUESTS LAWYER'S
NEWEST FUNDS BE HELD FOR CLASS TO PAY FOR NEW ACCOUNTING/REVIEW AND INDEPENDENT
COUNSEL OVERSIGHT IN BREACHED SETTLEMENT.
Dear Judge Wiley,
Your honor, as you know I am the Lead Plaintiff in a class
action lawsuit filed on behalf of non-union free American writers against the
Writer's Guild of America, Inc., a non-profit corporation.
During the course of this 7-year litigation I have
become the certified representative for both union and non-union writers in
tiny towns and places all across America.
I also came to represent all 19,500 WGA members who
today find themselves bound "forever" to the settlement terms because
I was falsely presented to the courts as a member "Emeritus In
Arrears," a category invented for me by the union, which I never was.
There is no other writer among the named plaintiffs.
I am duty bound by Congressional mandate to act as
"Citizens Attorney General" for each and every one of my class.
Ethically, I must inform the court about matters that
have not been presented to the Judge: willful, serious omissions that deserve
the court's attention and remedies:
1.)
ON JANUARY 10 2012 Defendant WGAw corporation
and its Board of Directors misled Judge West in Dept. 311 by saying there was
an acceptable audit in settlement, placed on the wga.org website. Our lawyers
did not tell the Judge that the auditors themselves say the website document is
NOT AN AUDIT, and cannot be used by anybody except the WGA itself, thus
deceiving the court and writer class into believing the lawsuit is satisfied. Both
the writer’s class counsel and defendant’s counsel put forth this audit knowing
it was not an audit and could not be used as an audit.
2.)
Significantly, and only just discovered
in DGA documents, a new “second set of books” has been disclosed, pinpointing
yearly audits of foreign levies for WGA, SAG and DGA along with the MPAA studios
dating back to 2006. It appears that throughout
all these years of courtroom litigation for an audit, the guilds and attorneys
concealed he existence of an annual ongoing $70,558 PKF "Tri Guild
Audit", an audit paid for by the studios which might provide startling new
evidence of actual amounts involved in the lawsuits, an audit of the money
belonging to the writer class that the class deserves to examine since the only
audit given after all these yeas is a NOT AUDIT and can't be used as an
accounting for the millions "disappeared.”
3.)
The annual "review" on the
WGAw website is also bogus and consists of only one page, and the small print states,
brazenly and unbelievably, that the audit is taken from the same KMPG numbers provided
entirely by the same WGA people accused of embezzlement; thus in no way can
this one page document be used to verify class accounting demands under the
settlement.
4.)
In the May 16 hearing Neville Johnson
revealed for the first time that the foreign levy amount collected by the WGAw
actually 200 million, or almost twice the 104 million the union told the courts
and Variety and the class.
5.)
In post-settlement documents the WGA has
revealed that 9,360 writers received the just acknowledged 200 million, but
offers no proof at all that this happened, how the money was divided, not a
single cancelled check.
6.)
Though they were told repeatedly from
the bench by Judge West to provide accounting documents and correspondence to
the Lead Plaintiff for the class, Neville Johnson and Paul Kiesel and Don Jasko
refused, excluding American writers from their lawsuit almost entirely.
7.)
The court should not allow Mr. Johnson
again to substitute any non-writer for the position of Lead Plaintiff for “all
American writers,” as he and Tony Segall attempted to substitute into the case the
daughter of non-writer Pearl Retchin, a class plaintiff who was dead for a year
before the court was told.
8.)
As Lead Plaintiff in the case I still have
not been provided any accounting at all, and have not been paid the minimum
$75,000 owed to me (CAFA) against an estimated $233,000 lost as a result of the
embezzlements. My attorney Paul Kiesl
told me that my checks from the WGA would be used as the basis for an in-depth
accounting that would apply to all the class. This accounting could be compared
to the DGA and SAG accountings for my films throughout all three unions. I
relied on Mr. Kiesl’s expertise, as he gives lectures on class actions to LA
Superior Court Judges, is a Co Chair of the California Bar and provides ample
expertise on class actions procedures. Mr. Kiesl sat with me for three days,
during which time he explained in front of witness how Lead Plaintiffs
accountings are templates for the class. Because of his promise of a fair and
understandable audit, given in front of witnesses, provided with
court-sanctioned expert opinion I signed the settlement agreement for the
class.
9.)
I have been retaliated against by both
the WGAw Executives and Board in false statements to their membership, and by
my own lawyers, who filed vexatious tax reports that got me in trouble with the
IRS. In his Oct 3 2011 hearing Judge West admonished the WGA to quit any harm
to the writer's plaintiff, but my lawyers ignored him and did nothing about it and
the WGA harassing behavior continues online.
“THE
COURT: YOU KNOW, THERE’S A LOT OF
MYSTERY GOING ON HERE. AND WE ALL OUGHT
TO BE AWARE THAT I’VE GOT SOME CONCERNS.
AND I WANT TO HEAR FROM MR. RICHERT ON THIS ISSUE.” – Judge Carl J.
West, May 21, 2008
Your honor, I declare that if the DGA's accounting is
"laughable," the WGA brings down the house with its claim that its
Board of Directors spent approximately 35 million in "administrative fees”
etc., – not to mention attorney and whistle blower fees – an amount exceeding
the entire WGAw yearly budget -- to
distribute non-union and union foreign levies – not a penny of which belonged
to them -- when they were unable to account for any of it until the appearance a
“not audit” audit, accompanied by the equally sudden appearance of 200 million
after the recent sudden appearance of 104 million -- and all of it a fraction
of what actually was collected by unions divided with the studios -- is pure
bunk. WGA corruption exposer Eric Hughes’ documents, and Teri Mial’s paid-off
employee Whistle blower testimony, show all the accounts to be false.
Therefore, on behalf of the class I represent, I seek
a decree that shifts the funds for future attorneys fees to a general fund for
the class of writers I represent, so the just-discovered "Tri Guild"
accountings can be examined, and new attorneys can be hired to look at the
entirety of this settlement action and its aftermath in your courtroom.
Because of these post-settlement revelations, an
outside accounting is in the interest of fairness to the millions owed by law
to the authors and screenwriters of the 102,00 "titles" the WGA
claims to have collected money for, and split with the DGA and studios.
With these revelations since Judge West retired, we
discover a large number of artists in plaintiff classes, with the guilds owing
money to 102,000 writers and 102,000 directors of those titles and the 500,000
or more actors in the related SAG case; they say they paid it, but as Mr.
Hughes puts it, there is “not a shred of evidence.” -- But sworn evidence of plenty of shredding.
“THE
COURT: THE UNDERLYING GOAL OF THIS
SETTLEMENT AND THE COURT’S DETERMINATION THAT IT WAS A FAIR AND REASONBLE
SETTLEMENT ON BEHALF OF THE CLASS OF PEOPLE WHO WERE CERTIFIED FOR SETTLEMENT
PURPOSES AND WHO ARE BENEFITTING FROM THIS SETTLEMENT: IS THAT THERE WOULD BE A MORE TRANSPARENT AND
OPEN ACCOUNTING OF COLLECTIONS AND DISTRIBUTIONS.” Judge Carl J. West, Dept 311, Jan 10, 2012
As "Citizen Attorney General" for my class
of American writers, I plead that your honor will assist this plaintiff by enacting
the following motions in the interests of fairness, justice and transparency:
MOTION TO DENY ATTORNEY FEES TO
CLASS LAWYERS in the August 9, 2012 hearing until the court is satisfied the
writer class plaintiff has funds to hire a lawyer equal to the super-lawyers so
the writer-plaintiff can adequately defend the class against further theft, "Both federal and California courts
have held that, when the ethical violation in question is a conflict of
interest between the attorney and the client, the appropriate fee for the
attorney in question is zero." -- letter to Judge Highberger re fraud on
LA Superior court.
MOTION TO COMPEL DEFENDANT DGA,
ITS CFO AND PRESIDENT AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS TO PROVIDE ALL PKF STUDIO AUDITS
IN ITS POSSESSION RELATING TO THE WGAW FOREIGN LEVY LAWSUIT, INCLUDING AUDIT OF
WITH MAJOR STUDIOS TO VERIFY AMOUNTS. The class should not be the out and out
loser in a class action if the action has merit and is sound. The class is
entitled to simple transparency in all audits which relate to money which was
collected illegally for thousands of unsuspecting free writers and writers not
hired by studios. It is in the most urgent interest of the class to know how
much of their money was given to the studios, and to each of the unions, and
how much actually received from this settlement.
MOTION FOR WRIT OF MANDATE TO COMPEL WGA TO PROVIDE
WRITER CLASS COPIES OF WGAW"TRI STATE" AUDITS SHOWING WHERE THE
FOREIGN LEVY MONEY DISAPPEARED. The settlements do not release claims against
the WGAw for splitting with studios outside the collective bargaining
agreement; the settlements do not settle any future claims from non-union
American actors OR union American directors. The Board of Directors are
basically withholding evidence.
MOTION TO COMPEL COPIES OF DOCUMENTS, ACCOUNTINGS AND
EMAILS BETWEEN CONSULTANT DONALD JASKO AND WGAW et. al. CFO DON GOR BE GIVEN TO
THE WRITER CLASS. Donald Jasko asked me specifically for copies of checks I got
from the WGA that did not match the DGA; I did not know it was just to keep me
quiet, and he had no intention of using them.
MOTION TO COMPEL ACCOUNTING FOR LEAD PLAINTIFF WILLIAM
RICHERT AS TEMPLATE FOR THE CLASS, AS PROMISED by counsel Paul Kiesl before signing
the settlement, specifically the titles “Law and Disorder,” “The Happy Hooker,”
“Success,” “Winter Kills,” and “The Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon,” “The
Man In The Iron Mask,” years 1974-2012.
MOTION TO COMPEL WGAw to provide copies of its
settlement documents to states attorneys-general and Federal authorities as
provided by law, since the affected are from all states.
MOTION TO DEMAND NEVILLE JOHNSON AND WGAW CEASE
RETALIATION AGAINST NAMED PLAINTIFF, as the WGAw puts false statements about me
on its website and to letters to its members, and Neville Johnson purposefully
filed misleading tax information to the IRS causing me tax burdens. No class
representative should have to fear retribution or bad-mouthing from the
defendant or his own lawyers.
I have been threatened to be dumped roadside, and
blacklisted, and other things during this confrontational litigation with my
former union, who claim I am a member when they need the association and then
deny it in emails to their members when they don't.
BACKGROUND AND AUTHORITY
Neville Johnson told the LA Daily Journal that he was
the mastermind of the “3 sister” foreign levy lawsuits in 2005, drawing upon his
existing clients as Lead Plaintiffs.
I was such a client at the time, with my jury award
the highest he ever got, almost 15 million. Mr. Johnson knew I’d publicly
stated that the WGAw was corrupt from having my credit for THE AMERICAN
PRESIDENT/WEST WING given to another writer without due process or transparency
just the way Mr. Johnson described the way the guild concealed millions in
undistributed funds for unnamed non-union writers the guild divided with the
studios in a long-running kind of mutual extortion.
The real force behind Neville Johnson's lawsuits was Eric
Hughes, screenwriter of "Against All Odds" and "White Knights."
It was Eric Hughes, WGA presidential
candidate running against corrupt credit arbitration in the WGA, who obtained
insider documents from whistle blower Teri Mial, paid six-figures herself to
keep quiet in this lawsuit. And it was Eric Hughes who introduced
Mial to Mr. Johnson, and who showed Mr. Johnson, along with me and other
prominent journalists, just what the corruption looked like on paper.
Mr. Johnson was essentially a copyist of Mr. Hughes'
written allegations used by his firm Johnson & Rishwain for their original
complaints of fraud and other things against all three Hollywood “labor” guilds.
We ask the court to demand that documents held by Mr.
Hughes be given to the class. Mr. Hughes owes it to the writers, actors and
directors to provide copies of evidence that rightfully belongs to them, and
which can eliminate instantly, with publication of names and amounts, all doubt
about who did what, and can provide immediate finality to this class
litigation.
However, far more significant to this breached
settlement, a game changer, is the discovery from new statements by the DGA
that the unions and studios have actually been covertly doing audits all this
time. This means that all during years
of lengthy courtroom hearings for the DGA, WGA and SAG since the lawsuit was
filed in 2005, the lawyers kept quiet. Now
we see proof positive how all foreign levies were all audited by the studios
and themselves since maybe as early as 2003 in what the CFO of the DGA calls
"Tri Guild Foreign Levy Audits."
It would be a public sham to continue hearings in
court to get something already got.
It is iconic misdirection among 19+ lawyers for the
unions who appeared for these guilds in court during the past 7 years and never
mentioned they already had what the class was looking for: an
audit; evidence of a billion-dollar secret royalty split between the
unions and studios approved by nobody among the free Americans in my class,
whose money it actually was/is, and who could use it today.
BIG STORY, BIG PLAYERS
This could only happen in Hollywood, where a whisper
can sink a ship of a career. Where unions have meetings with both writers
and young video dancers with teamsters in tow. Intimidation is
rampant, your honor should know.
Once I discovered Mr. Johnson, and next Mr. Keisl,
were ready to sell out the rights of American writers for their personal and
corporate profits, that they were essentially profiteering on Superior Court
litigation without regard for the greater long term rights of the writers who
are their clients, I became in direct conflict with my lawyers while standing
in place as lead plaintiff, and I am standing still, for I have not surrendered
the original goal of the case: a true accounting and payout and end to
unethical behavior.
I attach a "disappeared" check signed by
Patric Verrone made out to the poet Bukowski, a fellow class member.
Mr. Johnson tells each judge about how weak and
unorganized our related cases for writers, directors and actors are; tells each
judge he/she is our only hope, but that's because Neville Johnson is not doing
his job, as it is not the Judge's job to act as advocate for the lawyer's
underdog in a lawsuit.
The lawyers for both sides in this case purport to
represent writers and artists, but none of them really do.
The true facts and true movers have been concealed
from Dept. 311, from both you and Judge West before you, and Judge Morrow
before that in Federal court.
The court transcript of January 10, before he retired,
shows Judge West believed both sides when he was told an "audit" had
been placed on the WGAw website. His sudden retirement meant he never saw the
one page NOT AN AUDIT that Mr. Johnson and Mr. Kiesel and Mr. Segall told him
gave settlement finality to the RICHERT VS. WGAw lawsuit.
At Judge West’s last hearing in Dept. 311, January 10,
2012, which I couldn’t attend because I wasn’t told about it, Judge West did say
to Messrs. Johnson and Schecter: "I don't want the two of you in front of
me any more. It doesn't do any good,” and “I know enough to be dangerous.”
Judge West said if it had his name on it, "it has
to be right."
Before telling Judge West the audit was on the WGAw website,
Neville Johnson claimed that the settlement was in material breach; only a
large payment to Donald Jasko changed that, along with fees yet to be paid to
Neville Johnson. But for these payments,
the settlement is still in breach.
I don't claim copyright but my name is on this lawsuit
and I've known some great writers who deserve my sticking to our rights, even
if I am threatened with expulsion from the writer's lawsuit in favor of
lawyers. A case brought on behalf of writers should have a writer in it.
SOLIDARITY OF CORRUPTION
It is absurd to have the accused corporation offer its
own accounting without strict oversight, or any oversight. Having the WGAw
review its own review is like a joke; a "Not Audit" is not acceptable
to settle a lawsuit except for suckers, and putting numbers from a "not
audit" up on the wga.org website as an "one-time review" with an
“annual review” consisting of 3 lines is offensive and insulting to my class.
I still have not gotten any form of accounting for my own
foreign levies owed and interest bearing dating back to 1974. Please show us
the stubbs.
Besides being useless to the class, the accounting is
AICA, not GAAP; another breach.
ACCOUNTING NOT PERFORMED ACCORDING TO GENERAL
ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES AS REQUIRED IN SETTLEMENT
The startling figure 200 million entered into the
record by Neville Johnson is double what was reported only months ago by the
WGA to Variety. Where’d it come
from? We need to know, your honor.
Now suddenly, the WGAw says it paid out 21 million
dollars to its members/non members in the single year 2011. This single amount
is 20% of what the union claims to have paid out over the past 20 years -- and
this year the lowest in DVD sales since the past decade or so -- how does this
add up?
In fact, the WGA claims it collected 85 million
dollars plus 1,323,149 “interest/income” for members and free writers
nationwide since 2007, more than in all the years from 1992-2007, when DVD
sales were ballooning.
WGAw Board claims it distributed 21 million to members
this year. In the past 20 years they charged
35+ million in “fees” to do all this “administration,” but cannot produce a
single canceled check in evidence.
How can the WGAw charge its members roughly
one-quarter of what it collected for "administrative" fees when it
can't show it administered anything, when it has to hire an outside firm for an
audit amazingly limited and confined to numbers only they offer, and nothing
more?
How can the lawyers from several firms keep billing the
same writers in all cases millions in fees without producing a single
accounting of merit? In fact, hiding the
audit that really does exist.
In the hearing before you on May 16 in Dept 311, where
this case has been for years, the WGA counsel is silent when Neville Johnson suddenly
pops up with an extra 100 million.
The Lead Plaintiff is obliged to protest. The court
should look at the 2007 WGAw accounting, given under oath, which both
duplicates and contradicts the KMPG report.
The KMPG-WGAw accounting, approved by its Board of
Directors to settle a case for fraud, doesn't compute, add up, or make sense.
It's a big lie.
That means the Boards of Directors and Executives at 3
major guilds handling the money of thousands of people are untrustworthy.
THE BREACHED SETTLEMENT WITHOUT COMPLIANCE GIVES
WGAw/MPAA STUDIOS ECONOMIC CONTROLS OVER
U.S. WRITERS NATIONWIDE UNLESS THE CLASS SAYS FOUL AND THE COURT ALLOWS THE
CLASS TO SPEAK.
The WGAW has concealed facts about writers’ credits
and income before.
It was the writer's guild union who blacklisted
hundreds of great American screenwriters, their own colleagues, putting them
out of work for years, a long list of names also due foreign levies, if living;
otherwise, their heirs.
This Hollywood union/studio combo are seeking to
control piracy on the internet, when they are pirates themselves with American
foreign royalties and copyrights.
The guilds and studios have "organized' the
collection of foreign royalties for all American artists, and they have done so
in secret, illegally.
American writers and artists should know that there is
a huge database with their names and financial information on it, as many as
700,000 citizens, a database they cannot access.
The WGA/MPAA should not be in possession of that
database – U.S. citizens’ social security numbers and addresses and tax ID’s –
which will soon number in the millions as more and more independent filmmakers
sell their work abroad over the internet and other places.
Unions so ostentatiously corrupt should not have
access to this information so as to seize it as a “mailing list” ripe for
exploitation.
WGAw claims the 2007 strike gives the union jurisdiction
over the Internet for any thing that moves, saying if it moves it must be
written, and they control it.
The WGAw refers to writers who write without a union
or new media contract with them as “scabs.”
“THE COURT: I
GUESS I HAVE REAL CONCERNS ABOUT HOW ALL THESE NEGOTIATIONS AND MEDIATIONS WERE
TAKING PLACE WITH NO LIVING CLASS REPRESENTATIVE FOR ONE OF THE SUPP. CLASSES.
THAT'S A PROBLEM.
I HAVE A QUESTION REGARDING THE ABILITY OF CLASS
COUNSEL TO CONTINUE TO REPRESENT THE INTERESTS OF THE CLASS AT THIS JUNCTURE
GIVEN THE INFORMATION THAT HAS BEEN PLACED BEFORE THE COURT.” Judge Carl J. West, Dept 311, March 23, 2009
Paul Kiesl, who induced me with his knowledge of facts
and law (in front of 2 witnesses) to sign this settlement on behalf of my
class, did not attend the May 16 hearing, perhaps because he was out raising
660 million in emergency funding for the LA Superior Court system. That amount may have been lost to the LA tax
base during the 2.9 billion WGA strike in 2007, which still hurts, led by the
same Board who gave the KMPG accounting.
Your honor clerked with Justice Powell who vigorously
promoted the idea of corporations having the same rights as individuals -- and
it ought to work both ways.
If corporations have the same rights as individuals,
as Chief Justice Powell believed, they have the same obligations for honesty
and fair dealing, and ought not use their lopsided power, as in LA, where
unions and studios possess vastly superior resources and hidden agreements
dating back years. If their rights Trump ours, and they as “corporate individuals”
are protected over my class and me as an non-corporate individual in your
courtroom, my class action is doomed.
Individuals cannot fight major corporations alone,
which is why class actions were created.
Of course the court knows that, you handle class actions routinely.
I am not be able to afford a lawyer on my writer's
income, esp. now that the WGAw has stopped sending me residuals and levy checks
altogether as a result of this litigation.
LAWYER CLIENT CONFLICT WHEN CLIENT REPRESENTS A LARGE CLASS
Some legalists have told me to contact the Bar about
Neville Johnson and Paul Kiesl, but it's quicker to just email Mr. Kiesl as he
is Co-Chair of the California bar.
Eric Hughes did complain to the bar, which found the
fact Mr. Kiesel didn’t associate himself into the case was problematical, as
Mr. Kiesl already knows.
CALIFORNIA CODE OF JUDICAL ETHICS: (1) A
judge shall not allow family, social, political or other relationships to
influence the judge’s judicial conduct or judgment, nor shall a judge convey or
permit others to convey the impression that any individual is in a special
position to influence the judge.
Also I feel obliged to say, as the only writer court-certified
to represent my class that your honor’s remarks to me on first sight when I
raised my hand to speak in protest after Neville Johnson said my case was
"settled" when I say no -- when you advised me this was “not a town
hall” “or a therapy meeting” -- as if I were a hothead or a nutcase -- and
later when you said in front of me that these lawyers sitting in front of me were
such that “every law school student in the country would like to be like you” --
and especially when you told me that my lawyers were "famous,"
implying I was not, and maybe for some faulty
reason I was not -- these statements from your authority, which are absolute,
made me think I should complain to the Commission of Judges for fair dealing
with all parties in a lawsuit -- as to whether you showed bias towards a Lead Plaintiff
in a class action lawsuit in favor of lawyers --but as in the case of my lawyers,
I may as well just state my concerns to you here directly, respectfully, and
ask you as a member of the California’s Commission on Judicial Ethics Opinions
to consider the pain of my humiliation in court.
You honor must be aware that you are highly regarded
as a brilliant legal mind in article after article about Judges on the
Internet, and so your initial opinion of me is even more damaging and I plead
with the court to remember:
(8)…A JUDGE SHALL MANAGE THE COURTROOM
IN A MANNER THAT PROVIDES ALL LITIGANTS THE OPPORTINITY TO HAVE THEIR MATTERS
FAIRLY ADJUDICATED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW.
COMENTARY: …A judge should encourage and seek to
facilitate settlement, but parties should not feel coerced into surrendering
their right to have their controversy resolved by the courts.”
This class action is not about coupons or consumers,
it is about creators and copyrights and human rights, each and every artist
involved is different, and that is one of their similarities as a class. No assembly line here.
As artists, they have a right to know if their work is
shown abroad, indeed shown anywhere, and they have the right to be assured
their accountings are transparent and honest.
I figure the combo lawyers have made millions off the
defendants in these cases so far.
At the hearing for attorney fees on August 9, if your
honor could move a little cash -- which comes from writers anyhow -- to the
other side of the table -- it would mean we could pay for a true accounting, a
great leap towards justice for as 700,000 Americans.
Like Neville Johnson, I concur that history will be
made in your courtroom, only not in Mr. Johnson’s way.
We shall do all in our power to make sure this
settlement is not an out and out loss for the freedom of artists in America, a Hollywood
snuff job for our civil rights and economic rights as free writers and artists
in a free nation.
Sincerely,
William Richert
Lead Plaintiff
WILLIAM RICHERT VS
WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA et al
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