Legal Opinion
Alch v. Superior Court
California Court of Appeal
Decided September 14, 2004No. B165638, B166009, B170564, B170629PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BOLAND, J.
SUMMARY
These appeals and writ petitions involve 23 separate class action lawsuits filed by hundreds of television writers against (a) 12 different groups of related television networks, studios and production companies (collectively, employers or networks and studios), and (b) 11 talent agencies. The writers, who are over the age of 40 and members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA), assert that each of the networks and studios has for many years maintained a systemwide policy or practice of age discrimination. The talent agencies, which represent writers seeking television…
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