Lawsuit: UFC ‘inadvertently produced’ e-mail from PRIDE acquisition

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The UFC accidentally handed over an e-mail that purports to contain its business strategy in the PRIDE acquisition, and they want it back.

We've all sent texts or e-mails we've immediately wanted back. For the UFC's current and former attorneys, it's happened twice. New filings in the class-action antitrust lawsuit reveal a battle over whether the plaintiff fighters will be able to use the contents of accidentally-produced documents or whether they'll have to be completely ignored.

According to a letter written by UFC attorney Marcy Norwood Lynch, when documents were produced in the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC's) 2011 investigation of the Strikeforce merger, the UFC's outside counsel at the time, Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP, "inadvertently produced some privileged documents…


Lawsuit: UFC ‘inadvertently produced’ e-mail from PRIDE acquisition
 
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FadeToBlack

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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

Sorry, I mean, that's really unfortunate, I hope the matter is resolved soon and with respect to Zuffa's wishes.














 
BanMe

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Wait... this isn't the first time this has happened! Did they not fire that intern from the first occurrence?
 
kneeblock

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Just proof that "high priced attorneys" doesn't mean what most people think it means.
 
Sweets

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mysticmac said:
Why don't the just comply with the request and email it back to them?
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Because then it can't be used, I imagine if they return part of the discovery they forfeit the right to use it in court, I don't know if that's true but it makes sense to me.
 
ErikMagraken

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Throbbie Fart said:
ErikMagraken @ErikMagraken any thoughts on this issue?
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Kidding aside this probably is not a huge issue one way or another. Inadvertent disclosure occurs sometimes in litigation. Generally parties need to disclose relevant documents. These seem to meet this test (ie documents showing how the UFC acquired its market position). The question then is do the documents truly meet the test of attorney/client privilege? If so they need not be disclosed and a party recieves this document through inadvertent disclosire should return it. Parties can't agree so a judge will decide.

Probably a very small battle in a much bigger war unless there is something truly damning in the documents
 
StillReal

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That poster just made me dribble some dribble juice if you know what I'm sayin?????
 
WoodenPupa

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ErikMagraken said:
Probably a very small battle in a much bigger war unless there is something truly damning in the documents
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Scooby Doo villain declaration of evil, possibly.

"We, the owners and managers of the UFC, hereby declare our intentions to destroy all other MMA organizations, burn them to the ground if need be, in order to rig the market unfairly in our favor, such that maximum harm shall be inflicted on the career of any fighter who dares to want more..."

*UFC lawyers pump fists with glee* "We knew they'd slip up!!!"
 
FadeToBlack

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I'm sure it's nothing too serious. I just find it fitting that the empire is collapsing within as much as without. I am grateful for the UFC, yet disappointed in them at the same time. I look at lawsuits like this as a check and balance to absolute power, one that makes sure fans and fighters get what they want as much as promoters. I'm not anti-Zuffa, I'm anti-monopsony Zuffa. So to see them shoot themselves in the foot is good. I don't want them to die of the bleeding, but I want them to lose a little blood, not gonna lie.
 
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ErikMagraken said:
Kidding aside this probably is not a huge issue one way or another. Inadvertent disclosure occurs sometimes in litigation. Generally parties need to disclose relevant documents. These seem to meet this test (ie documents showing how the UFC acquired its market position). The question then is do the documents truly meet the test of attorney/client privilege? If so they need not be disclosed and a party recieves this document through inadvertent disclosire should return it. Parties can't agree so a judge will decide.

Probably a very small battle in a much bigger war unless there is something truly damning in the documents
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THE MAGKRAKEN SPEAKS!


 
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