Legal Opinion
Fairstein v. Netflix, Inc.
District Court, M.D. Florida
Decided September 24, 2020No. 2:20-cv-00180Unknown
1Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA FORT MYERS DIVISION LINDA FAIRSTEIN, Plaintiff, v. Case No.: 2:20-cv-00180-JLB-MRM NETFLIX, INC., AVA DUVERNAY, and ATTICKA LOCKE Defendants. / ORDER On May 31, 2019, Defendant Netflix, Inc. (“Netflix”) released the four-part series When They See Us (“the Series”) on its global streaming platform. (Doc. 1 at ¶1.) The Series is a dramatization of the highly publicized case of the Central Park Five—a group of five African-American and Latino teenagers (“the Five”) who were tried and convicted on charges connected to the violent rape of…
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