Actress’s Lawsuit Against IMDb.com and Amazon.com is One Step Closer to Trial

On March 30, 2012, the Washington Federal Court Ninth Circuit made several findings in the case of Huang Hoang, who has been making headlines in the entertainment industry for her lawsuit last October claiming website IMDb.com and its parent company Amazon.com are liable to her for damages because they had revealed her true age of 40 years old. Ms. Hoang, who is better known in the entertainment...
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Trial Date Set in Actress Huang Hoang’s Lawsuit Against IMDB and Amazon

The Texas-based actress suing IMDB and its parent company Amazon for publishing her true age on their website is now moving forward and the federal judge presiding over the case has set a trial date for January 07, 2013. Hoang’s lawsuit asserts causes of action for breach of contract, fraud, and violation of Washington’s Privacy and Consumer Protection Act. Now that the Ms. Hoang has...
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Actress Who Sued IMDB Over Her Age Disclosure Has Been Forced to Reveal Her Identity

Recently, an actress who originally sued the popular IMDB website, a subsidiary of Amazon, for disclosing her real age, revealed her true identity in court documents. The federal judge presiding over her case ordered her to identify herself by name and gave her fourteen days to do so or face having her case dismissed. Actress Huang Hoang has been praised by the Screen Actors Guild for her...
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IMDb Faces Million Dollar Legal Battle with Anonymous Actress

By now, even individuals not involved in the movie industry know of the IMDb (the “Internet Movie Database”) website, which frequently shows up in google searches for various celebrities. A lawsuit filed on October 13, 2011 in the Ninth Circuit by an anonymous Hollywood actress (referred only in the lawsuit as “Jane Doe”) is bringing to the forefront celebrity privacy issues often...
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