Update: Closing Arguments Conclude In Golden Globes Trial; Lawyer Says Dick Clark “Enslaved” HFPA

10 February 2012 1:05 PM, PST | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »

Freelance journalist Dominic Patten is covering the trial for Deadline. Update, 1:05 Pm: Closing arguments have concluded and now it’s up to the judge to decide who wins and loses. But don’t expect a decision anytime soon as Matz told the jam-packed courtroom at the end of session today that “it is going to be some time before I can turn back to this”. Previous, 12 Pm: Hollywood Foreign Press Association lawyer Dan Petrocelli said that Dick Clark Productions’ amendment to an agreement about TV rights to the Golden Globes “enslaved the HFPA”. The words came during closing arguments today in the trial between Dcp and the HFPA over those TV rights. Citing a 1993 perpetuity amendment at the heart of the two-week trial, Petrocelli said that “12 words changed the entire course of history between the two parties.” Dcp, said the lawyer, added the language in 1993 in a “sloppy” and »

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