The Court in the Floyd Mayweather, Jr.-CSI Entertainment case is heating up as a flurry of letters to the Court ensures that the legal fight will be contentious. For details of the lawsuit, you can read here and here.
From what I can gather the parties were told to meet and confer on a discovery schedule. According to Mayweather’s attorneys that did not happen. On Wednesday, CSI Entertainment’s attorney sent a letter to the Court proclaiming it had evidence of fraud. The attorney, Judd Burstein, demanded that in light of the information, he demanded a brief to the Court
Burstein has been pushing for an expedited schedule in the matter and has pressed the Court into making a decision on the injunction as well as speeding through to discovery so that the Court can determine the issue on behalf of his clients.
Mayweather’s attorneys have responded arguing Burstein refused a “meet and confer” (process in which attorney attempt to plan a schedule on their own without court intervention) and instead unilaterally filed his letter with the Court.
In my opinion, its clear gamesmanship by CSI’s attorney considering Mayweather’s counsel is in Los Angeles and Burstein is in New York. David Jonelis, one of Mayweather’s attorneys, sent an email to Burstein noting that it was filed earlier in the morning. Since Burstein is 3 hours ahead he had a jump on filing the information. Also, he knows that the lawyers aren’t licensed in New York (they have to be waived in) which means they aren’t currently privy to the filings. Claiming that something is “perjurious” but not providing the document might not be in the best practices of litigation book. MPO will continue to follow.
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