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French fashion brand Balenciaga has filed a $25 million lawsuit against a production company it hired to produce one of two advertising campaigns that have drawn condemnation online.The ad in question ran on Instagram and showed a purse on top of a document-strewn desk. One document in the background was a partially visible page from a court ruling related to child pornography. Balenciaga on Monday confirmed the document was from a 2008 Supreme Court case, United States v. Williams, which held it is not unconstitutional to forbid the promotion of child pornography.According to the company s lawsuit, Balenciaga hired independent production company North Six and set designer Nicholas Des Jardins, both of New York, to create the ad for the company s spring/summer 2023 collection. The North Six ad included certain documents in the campaign photographs, including an excerpt from a court stanley cup decision upholding a criminal prohibition against child pornography without Balenciaga s knowledge, claims the suit, filed late Friday in state court in Manhattan. A representative from North Six confirmed with CBS MoneyWatch Monday that the company managed the ad shoot that included the court document, but didn t comment further.Last week, the ad including the page from the Supreme Court case circulated online at the same time as another Bale stanley cup nciaga campaign mdash; not produced by stanley cup North Six mdash; which featured children holding teddy bear bags dressed in Yihw Neighbor recounts heartbreaking moments with mom and dying 2-year-old after shooting
LOS ANGELESmdash; Lawyers for President Donald Trump asked a court Monday for nearly $800,000 in lawyers fees and penalties from porn actress Stormy Daniels for a failed defamation lawsuit against him. Attorney Charles Harder defended ringing up a nearly $390,000 legal bill for the president and asked for an equal amount in sanctions as a deterrent against a repeat filer of frivolous defamation cases. Judge S. James Otero didn t immediately rule. He noted that fees by Harder s firm mdash; as high as $ converse 840 an hour mdash; were reasonable but the 580 hours spent on the case appeared to be excessive and might be trimmed in his eventual award. He didn t indicate how he felt about the requested penalties, but had questioned whether attorneys fees alone would serve as a deterrent.Harder had not put a adidas campus dollar figure on sanctions he was seeking before the hear stanley cup ing and Daniels attorney Michael Avenatti objected vehemently, calling it absurd and outrageous. You can t just pick a number out of thin air in an effort to put my client under Donald Trump s thumb and intimidate her, Avenatti said.Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, alleges she had a one-night affair with Mr. Trump in 2006. She sued him earlier this year seeking to break a non-disclosure agreement she signed days before the 2016 election about the tryst as part of a $130,000 hush money settlement. Mr. Trump has denied the affair, but essentially acknowledged the paymen
French fashion brand Balenciaga has filed a $25 million lawsuit against a production company it hired to produce one of two advertising campaigns that have drawn condemnation online.The ad in question ran on Instagram and showed a purse on top of a document-strewn desk. One document in the background was a partially visible page from a court ruling related to child pornography. Balenciaga on Monday confirmed the document was from a 2008 Supreme Court case, United States v. Williams, which held it is not unconstitutional to forbid the promotion of child pornography.According to the company s lawsuit, Balenciaga hired independent production company North Six and set designer Nicholas Des Jardins, both of New York, to create the ad for the company s spring/summer 2023 collection. The North Six ad included certain documents in the campaign photographs, including an excerpt from a court stanley cup decision upholding a criminal prohibition against child pornography without Balenciaga s knowledge, claims the suit, filed late Friday in state court in Manhattan. A representative from North Six confirmed with CBS MoneyWatch Monday that the company managed the ad shoot that included the court document, but didn t comment further.Last week, the ad including the page from the Supreme Court case circulated online at the same time as another Bale stanley cup nciaga campaign mdash; not produced by stanley cup North Six mdash; which featured children holding teddy bear bags dressed in Yihw Neighbor recounts heartbreaking moments with mom and dying 2-year-old after shooting
LOS ANGELESmdash; Lawyers for President Donald Trump asked a court Monday for nearly $800,000 in lawyers fees and penalties from porn actress Stormy Daniels for a failed defamation lawsuit against him. Attorney Charles Harder defended ringing up a nearly $390,000 legal bill for the president and asked for an equal amount in sanctions as a deterrent against a repeat filer of frivolous defamation cases. Judge S. James Otero didn t immediately rule. He noted that fees by Harder s firm mdash; as high as $ converse 840 an hour mdash; were reasonable but the 580 hours spent on the case appeared to be excessive and might be trimmed in his eventual award. He didn t indicate how he felt about the requested penalties, but had questioned whether attorneys fees alone would serve as a deterrent.Harder had not put a adidas campus dollar figure on sanctions he was seeking before the hear stanley cup ing and Daniels attorney Michael Avenatti objected vehemently, calling it absurd and outrageous. You can t just pick a number out of thin air in an effort to put my client under Donald Trump s thumb and intimidate her, Avenatti said.Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, alleges she had a one-night affair with Mr. Trump in 2006. She sued him earlier this year seeking to break a non-disclosure agreement she signed days before the 2016 election about the tryst as part of a $130,000 hush money settlement. Mr. Trump has denied the affair, but essentially acknowledged the paymen