Supreme Court of California

Under Labor Code section 1700.44(c), the one-year limitations period contained in the Talent Agencies Act does not prevent an entertainer from asserting an Act-based defense against alleged talent agent's suit for breach of contract, but the entertainer must submit her claim to the labor commissioner before raising the defense.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/12/2001
• Published 07/12/2001

Judges

• BAXTER, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, Barry B. Langberg, Deborah Drooz and Michael J. Niborski, for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Rosoff, Schiffres & Barta, Howard L. Rosoff, Los Angeles;  Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro, Patricia L. Glaser and Elizabeth G. Chilton, Los Angeles, for Defendants and Respondents., Geffner & Bush, Leo Geffner, Ira L. Gottlieb, Burbank, and Steven K. Ury for the Directors Guild of America, Screen Actors Guild, Writers Guild of America and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.