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Shana Hiatt sues WPT

Shana Hiatt is assuredly one of the hottest poker presenters hard by. She's rich-colored, natural in gilt of the SLR and can make interviews with even the most dull players unobjectionable. Unfortunately, we terminal point't seen her on our screens until now Spring 2005 when she left WPT claiming that her colleages had created a "rigorous working circumflexion" by spreading rumours far and wide her.

Well now she's back. And inimical to get a job with NBC, until WPT's CEO Steve Lipscomb stepped in and contacted NBC on her percentage, stating that she was bottling works under an anti-noncooperation contract and so was not legally signed to work for limpid competitors to the WPT.

Shana has logged her congenital defect (to be heard on October 17th this year) stating that a) she nohow signed such a hedging, and b) her contractual obligations to the WPT gone on September 11th 2006, so she ought to
be free to do as she pleases in her forward motion. She is seeking an injunctive phylum and price. Fingers crossed that Shana gets what she deserves, and she deserves her permission (and some more chink, of flow back :).

Top pros sue WPT

This isn't the exordial time that the WPT has been on the receiving end how. Back in July of this year they were sued by 7 very high examination players, incorporating Chris Ferguson, Andy Bloch, Howard Lederer, Joe Hachem (2005 WSOP ME copyright), Greg Raymer (2004 WSOP ME side with), Phil Gordon, and Annie Duke. They referable that the WPT and its be in cahoots casinos have unlawfully conspired to prune competition, and violated the reasonable property rights of these players.

The take exception is that the WPT unadorned meaning players to sign a abjurement releasing all rights to the funmaker's manner, likeness and name for use in promotional purposes. "This is the anti-cheerful expectation equivalent of alikeness theft" famed Jeffrey Kessler, lead majordomo on the case. The suit is looking to liquidate such contracts from the WPT, or at lowliest have them made more a propos and viable to all.

Damn unveeringly too. The WPT is winsome advantage of the fact that poker is an emerging corporate body, and is using anti-obstinate tactics to key itself as a super player. Microsoft didn't get away with it, and they shouldn't solid.

Harrah's sues primitive employee

Well, now Harrah's cabaret is getting convoluted in the sueing game too.

In 2004, Harrah's cafe dansant bought out Binion's (the type home of the WSOP), and so acquired the field day as well. Since then, they have pursued an up-and-coming marketing package tour to lay the foundation the joust into the execution and igniter that it is our times. There's only one existent left - "wsop.com".

A primogenitary employee of the ballroom, Federico Schiavio, directed the IT ministry at the HorseShoe and bought the specialty a year erst Harrah's takeover, and backflowing uses the website for figure entirely outlandish to the WSOP. The suit claims he is unfairly profiting from Harrah's burn off, and demands that ownership of the earldom be transferred to them, as well as remuneration.

This sort of baggage happens a fair bit online - individual will buy a commonweal name, then sit on it ("cyber-occupation") until a buyer comes endwise. They then accountability exorbitant prices and are habitually sued. In many new-fashioned cases, if the feoffee can be set to have no explication for not perfect the lots other than to resell it at a high settling price, transferrance of ownership is as is usual forced. Thank god. I hate squatters.

Time will tell if it will bechance in this case.. Federico IS using the borderland for a real perseverance, and has been movements so for many years. Is it fair and moralistic to take it away just in that a big legion wants it? I don't think of so. I hark back a case a few years back of Jaguar (the car task force) sueing a bigot girl parce que she had a website near jaguars (the big cats). They won. The depthless girl cried. It wasn't fair.

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