In April, the jury rendered a verdict in favor of IMDb, deciding that the website didn't violate its legal obligations to the actor, who was born in In her appeal, the lawyer for Hoang, Mark A. Kressel, argued she "never really got a fair trial," in part because her first counsel died during the discovery period before submitting all the actor's evidence.
Texan Huong "Junie" Hoang had been backed by Us acting unions in her bid to sue IMDb for breach of contract after the site used credit information and a third-party verification website to research her true age for its "Pro" subscription site, which is used extensively by Hollywood agents.
A Seattle jury found yesterday that the Amazon-owned website had not breached any legal obligations to Hoang following a two-day trial. It's old school etiquette that still persists: it's downright rude to ask a woman her age.
It might seem silly, but there's a lot of societal pressure on women to seem young for as long as humanly possible. So asking, "how old are you? But the stakes on perceived age are even higher in Hollywood, where there are scads of roles for ingenues, but fewer and fewer parts as an actress gets older.
Hoang sued the Internet Movie Database and its parent company Amazon for publishing her age on her IMDb profile without her permission.
The actress whose stage name is Junie Hoang declared that this. Following the example of Hollywood producers and men who value not being turned to stone, a federal jury has rejected the actress who filed a lawsuit against IMDb, after the online database exposed her true age to an industry with little use for the middle-aged, save perhaps as prop cadavers on CSI.
Ahh, America. Only in this country could an F-list actress even File a lawsuit over her right to lie about her age, let alone lose one. That's the gist of " Hoodrats 2: Hoodrat Warriors " star Junie Hoang 's charges against IMDb and parent company Amazon , who according to the Daily Mail had a federal jury in Seattle say "hell no" or words to that effect to her claim that the database breached her privacy contract by revealing her age.
Originally filed anonymously, the case contended that IMDb failed to remove her fake year of birth at her request, and then pulled her real birthdate from public records: Unfortunately, she couldn't prove she lost any roles over the matter, but when you're starring in " Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver " sounds like you can at least pay your electric bill.
Continue reading Hoang whose legal name is Huong Hoang filed the suit anonymously in against IMDb and parent company Amazon, but a judge dismissed Amazon as a defendant in a pre-trial hearing. The fortysomething actress had originally falsified her year of birth on her IMDb profile, which lists a slew of minor film credits including such contemporary cinematic classics as " Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver " and "Hoodrats 2: Hoodrat Warriors.
In her lawsuit, Hoang alleged she started losing acting work after IMDb obtained and posted her true age via credit card information she had provided.
IMDb countered that they had a right to publish correct information, and that Hoang could not prove.
Since , Hoang, whose stage name is Junie Hoang , has been suing IMDb and its parent company Amazon in federal court for what she says was improperly revealing her age in her online profile. The civil trial started in federal court in Seattle April 8. On Wednesday, the jury heard closing arguments and received their final instructions from judge Marsha Pechman.
They rendered a verdict in favor of IMDb on Thursday, deciding that the website didn't violate its legal obligations to the year-old actor.
But IMDb contended that Hoang originally published an incorrect birth date on its website, and then later demanded that IMDb review its files to determine whether the incorrect birth date was valid.
This should be of interest to all you actors out there who read this blog. Her lawyer, Derek Newman , presented the case on why detrimental information on an IMDb profile can result in the loss of acting jobs. The website believed that it had the right to present accurate information. Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day.
April 11, pm. Logo text. IMDb argued in court that it had the right to present accurate information, with lawyer Harry Schneider describing its position as a "search for truth" and labelling Hoang "selfish". This article is more than 8 years old. War of ages … Junie Hoang claimed the revelation of her years on the IMDB Pro website, which is regularly used by Hollywood agents, lost her a number of roles.
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