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governor.swill@gmail.com wrote:
Gloria Allred is a piece of shit attention whore. That is what this bitch does.
Attorneys for the production company of “Rust” are accusing
famed lawyer Gloria Allred of going AWOL from her client’s
lawsuit against actor Alec Baldwin and the movie’s production,
The Post has learned.
The attorneys, in a new filing, called for a judge to impose
monetary sanctions against Allred, claiming she hasn’t bothered
to submit genuine discovery documents in script supervisor Mamie
Mitchell’s lawsuit for nearly seven months.
At a press conference called by Allred in November 2021,
Mitchell, who was part of the New Mexico crew of the doomed
“Rust” film, said she was traumatized after witnessing
cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, 42, die on set.
She claimed Baldwin, 64, “intentionally” fired the gun during
the on-set shooting that killed Hutchins, and sued multiple
parties involved in the film’s making, claiming assault,
battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress and
negligence. Every charge against the production company, other
than negligence, has since been withdrawn or dismissed.
But Rust Movie Productions LLC, on Thursday, took Allred and the
rest of Mitchell’s legal team to task in a new filing, saying
the high-profile lawyer should have to pay up for allegedly
failing to respond to their questions — despite being granted
multiple extensions.
Lawyers for the production company say they served Allred and
her team a first set of 125 questions as part of the discovery
process in July 2022, according to the filing in Los Angeles
County Superior Court.
After granting the plaintiff two 30-day extensions, they
received answers in October, but described them as “boilerplate
objections” and said Mitchell’s lawyers “refused to provide any
substantive information.”
Productions’ lawyers say that Mitchell’s team agreed to provide
better answers in the next few weeks after “acknowledging the
obvious deficients,” but never did, according to the filing.
On Nov. 7, Allred and her team said the responses would come by
Nov. 11, emails included in the filing show. On Nov. 14, the
plaintiff’s side said the response would actually come on Nov.
18.
But the production company’s attorneys say they are still
waiting — and filed a motion that asks the court to order
Mitchell and her team to respond. They also want the court to
make Allred and her client to pay for $2,130 in costs of their
motion to compel.
“As of February 1, 2023, almost seven months after initial
service of the interrogatories, and despite numerous meet and
confer attempts, plaintiff still had not served the further
response she repeatedly promised,” the filing states.
“This is gamesmanship,” the attorneys wrote, citing their “due
process right to discovery.”
The production firm’s motion insisting Allred answer their
questions for Mitchell’s suit came on the same day she held a
press conference for a new lawsuit she was filing against the
company — this time representing family members of Hutchins,
who died on Oct. 21, 2021 when Baldwin fatally shot her.
One source close to the Mitchell case slammed the famed lawyer
saying, “The whole purpose for Gloria Allred is a press
conference. Once she has a press conference, she has no interest
in doing anything else.”
Allred brushed off the production company’s claim Sunday in a
statement to The Post.
“This is a typical defense tactic in a high profile litigation
war. It will not deter us from fighting for our brave client,
Mamie Mitchell,” she said. “We will be filing our objections
regarding this discovery matter prior to the hearing in June.”
Allred’s suits are concurrent with a criminal case brought
against Baldwin by the Santa Fe District Attorney, who charged
the disgraced actor last month with two counts of involuntary
manslaughter for the shooting. Baldwin has repeatedly said he
will fight to prove his innocence, but could face up to five
years in prison if convicted. The Santa Fe DA also charged the
films’ armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, with two counts of
involuntary manslaughter.
Producers of “Rust” settled a suit with Hutchins’ widower
Matthew in October and announced filming would resume with the
late cinematographer’s husband joining as an executive producer.
Joel Souza, who was injured during the on-set accident, is set
to return as the director.
“I have no interest in engaging in recriminations or attribution
of blame (to the producers or Mr. Baldwin). All of us believe
Halyna’s death was a terrible accident,” Matthew Hutchins said
in a statement following the announcement of the settlement.
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