Hollywood Foreign Press Ass'n v. Red Zone Capital Partners II

COURT’S FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

A. HOWARD MATZ, Senior District Judge.

INTRODUCTION

Resolution of the dispute that is at the core of this case should not have required a trial. It is a contract dispute over who has the right to license the Golden Globes Award Show for television broadcast. The parties could have settled their differences even before the complaint was filed. Certainly by the autumn of 2011, after discovery had been completed and the main legal issues fully briefed, they were in a position to promote and protect their respective interests by entering into a…