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Labor/Employment

Apr. 5, 2014

Defamation claim fuels executive's blacklisting lawsuit against Amazon, Netflix

Using an increasingly popular tactic in employment law, a spurned Silicon Valley executive complained that former employers Netflix and Amazon.com have blacklisted him to keep him from working in the video streaming industry.


By Laura Hautala


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Using an increasingly popular tactic in employment law, a spurned tech executive is suing former employer Netflix Inc. for defamation, charging that it has blacklisted him to keep him from ever working in the video streaming industry again.


Jerry Kowal, who ran international video licensing efforts for Netflix for about a year before moving to Amazon.com Inc. in June 2013, relies heavily on the alle...

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