| As JLM
Couture and Hayley Paige Gutman Litigate
Discover Optimum Whey Deal At Issue
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Jan 29 – In the case by JLM
Couture against its former
designer Hayley Paige Gutman,
a dispute has arisen not only
over the Instagram accounts
but also comments posted on
it, since taken down.
On January
6, U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Magistrate Judge Sarah L. Cave
held a proceeding. Inner City
Press covered and live tweeted
it, here and
below.
On January
11, it continued, another
telephone conference at 4 pm
in which Judge Cave expressed
frustration with some waste of
time. There was discussion of
who would have to sign the
protective order, and now to
sample comments after Ms.
Gutman uploaded a video and
tried to make it go viral.
Another conference was
scheduled for January 13.
Watch this site.
Ms. Gutman's
lawyer wants access to now
taken down Instagram accounts
supporting her. JLM's says she
manipulated the public's view.
Judge Cave asks,
Why doesn't Ms. Gutman just
ask her followers to send her
their comments that have now
been taken down? [Seems JLM
posted on "her" account and
then took down the comments.
The question here is, whose
account was this? JLM wants
protective order]
JLM's
lawyer Sarah Matz said she
doesn't know if her client can
now see the comments it took
down. "The comments were
normal...it's a very nice
dress, actually. The morning
after the TRO Ms Gutman posted
that my client was bullying
her. Then the negative
backlash"
JLM's Matz: "I
agree that the IG data will be
relevant, later in the case,
not for the P.I. [preliminary
injunction.] But Ms. Gutman
told people it's her account,
of course they repeated it.
She called my client a
disgusting company
JPM's Matz: Miss
Haley Paige is my client's
trademark. But Ms. Gutman was
using it to sell avocado oil.
And salad dressing.
As to another
account, Matz says carefully,
It's not my understanding that
JLM has any control over that
account. Ms. Gutman's lawyer:
What about JPM's P.R. firm?
Silence.
Then: Matz: My
client is a corporation.
On January 29,
Magistrate Judge Cave held
another proceeding. JLM
Couture is seeking in
discovery documents about
Gutman promoting other
businesses, zeroing in mostly
on Optimum Whey and attaching
social media posts. Judge Cave
ordered Gutman to ask Optimum
for her agreement or
communications with them.
The case is JLM
Couture, Inc. v. Gutman,
20-cv-10575 (Swain / Cave)
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