Thursday, April 14, 2016

Sumner Redstone Deposition Sought In Health Care Suit As Talks Crumble

By Deadline, April 13, 2016

The Sumner Redstone health care lawsuit looked all but settled, but today it is distinctly back on and lawyers for the media mogul’s former companion want the ex-Viacom chief to be ordered to give a deposition by April 18. And new correspondence suggests Redstone’s mental capacity may have been in question since April 2015.


“Throughout this litigation, Counsel have used Redstone’s health as both a sword and a shield,” said an ex parte application for Redstone’s deposition filed Wednesday in L.A. Superior Court by Manuela Herzer’s Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinge attorneys (read it here). Before now-shuttered settlement talks started more than a week ago, the nearly six-month saga over who controls Redstone’s health care was set to go to trial in May. 
 
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