Bleed Green Veteran
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| Subject: BREAKING NEWS: TNA Sues WWE Thu May 24, 2012 10:49 pm | |
| TNA has filed a lawsuit against WWE and former TNA and WWE employee Brian Wittenstein. The company filed the lawsuit yesterday in Nashville with charges of interference with existing contracts, conversion, breach of contract, civil conspiracy, unfair competition, and violation of the Tennessee Uniform Trade Secrets Act. Wittenstein is also being sued for breach of duty of loyalty.
The suit claims that Wittenstein, who worked for the company for three years from 2008 – 2011, gave WWE inside information on contracts and other details from his time working with the company and that WWE is trying to steal talent from the company via that information. Wittenstein was hired by WWE earlier this year but was let go in April, which TNA claims is after they were presented with the information. However, WWE did not inform TNA that they had been given that information for several weeks.
TNA claims that they were informed of the insider information on May 7th and that several days later, Ric Flair approached TNA trying to get out of his contract so he could go to WWE. The company says Flair hasn't appeared at events since. Alex Shelley, who is rumored to be heading to WWE, was not mentioned in the lawsuit.
An injunction has been issued demanding that WWE and Wittenstein return whatever confidential material Wittenstein obtained from TNA and were specifically instructed not to destroy any of the material. A hearing is set for next month.
http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/news/5773/breaking-news-tna-sues-wwe
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Bleed Green Veteran
Posts : 3039 Age : 27 Location : Hogwarts
| Subject: Re: BREAKING NEWS: TNA Sues WWE Thu May 24, 2012 10:50 pm | |
| And an update:
http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/news/5777/breaking-update-wwe-vs-tna-lawsuit | |
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Jarrett Executive
Posts : 3555 Location : New York
| Subject: Re: BREAKING NEWS: TNA Sues WWE Thu May 24, 2012 10:55 pm | |
| As you can tell by the long list of charges, TNA is just trying to get WWE in any way they can. They won't win on all charges, if the suit even makes it far into court. Even if they do win some it's not like WWE will be fined anything they can't pay. | |
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| Subject: Re: BREAKING NEWS: TNA Sues WWE Tue Jun 19, 2012 4:36 pm | |
| I hope TNA wins in all honesty, I doubt they will, but IF they somehow manage to pull this off, it will only make them look stronger than they pretend to be now... |
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Break Jobber
Posts : 149 Age : 27 Location : Mississippi
| Subject: Re: BREAKING NEWS: TNA Sues WWE Wed Jun 20, 2012 5:18 pm | |
| This is almost as fucking stupid as the WWE suing WCW "gimmick infringement" bullshit. | |
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