A judge ruled that some of the claims of the casts of the series "Bones," who are also the plaintiffs in the profit participation lawsuit, may belong in arbitration. However, FOX will have to wait as the request for arbitration has been delayed.
In a report by Deadline, the decision regarding the shifting of the multi-million dollars profit participation lawsuits to arbitration has been pushed by a judge to May 4. During the hearing on Monday regarding the matter, lawyers for the FOX defendants and the plaintiffs of the case, "Bones" executive producers Barry Josephson and Kathleen Reichs as well as stars Emily Deschanel and David Boreaneaz, have argued over the case despite the show preparing for its 12th and final season.
"Bones" is a long-running crime series that centers a forensic anthropologist and an FBI agent teaming up to investigate death causes, IMDb shares.
The judge handling the case, Richard Ricco, made no preliminary ruling and said that due to some parts of the agreement between the defendants and plaintiffs being encompassed by the arbitration clause, both parties will have to expand and re-argue their points about the matter. Judge Ricco, however, did not say what are the matters that will go to arbitration and which will stay before him, My News L.A. reported.
The decision of Judge Ricco comes almost five months after Josephson filed the lawsuit in November 25 last year. This also comes three months after FOX requested that the negotiations be behind closed doors and into arbitration.
Josephson said in his lawsuit that the "unrelenting and underreporting" 20th Century Fox Corporation, Fox Broadcasting Company, and Fox Entertainment Group did not pay him millions of money over the course of the run of "Bones."
He has cited breach of contract adding that the company systematically deprived him of compensation "to which he is contractually entitled." The other plaintiffs also claimed that they were "cheated out of more than $100 million in gross revenues and being overcharged many additional millions of dollars in alleged expenses."
Fox said the complaint of Josephson is an attempt to attract headlines and extract millions in undue compensation.
