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Entertainment & Sports

Aug. 12, 2010

Guild Reaches Deal on Foreign Levies

The Screen Actors Guild has reached a tentative settlement with its members who accused the union in a lawsuit of withholding millions of dollars in foreign distribution levies.

By Jean-Luc Renault

Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - The Screen Actors Guild reached a tentative settlement with its members to end a lawsuit that accused the union of failing to distribute millions of dollars in foreign distribution levies to film and television actors, according to the plaintiffs' lawyer.

The class action against SAG, filed in 2007 by attorney Neville Johnson, claimed that the union withheld more...

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