An notorious Manhattan choose turned arbitrator overstepped her bounds in a long-running authorized battle over the Ramones, a former enterprise supervisor for the enduring punk band claimed.
Shira Scheindlin — who dominated in 2013 that stop-and-frisk was unconstitutional and was later booted from the case by an appeals court docket for impartiality — has allegedly proven “outrageous and improper behavior” all through the dispute between guitarist Johnny Ramone’s widow, Linda Cummings-Ramone, and lead singer Joey Ramone’s brother, who goes by the stage title Mickey Leigh, in keeping with court docket papers.
Legal professionals for Leigh desires to vacate Scheindlin’s December determination forcing former enterprise supervisor David Frey to step down, claiming the jurist lacked jurisdiction.
Frey violated the phrases of RPI’s agreements when he did not current deal for a possible Netflix film about Leigh’s ebook, “I Slept with Joey Ramone: A Punk Rock Family Memoir,” to the corporate for approval, Scheindlin discovered.
It took many years for the band, whose 4 founding members have been from Queens, to turn into a business success with its eponymous April 1976 debut going gold 38 years after it debuted.
Earlier this yr, Frey sued Cummings-Ramone for defamation after she beforehand accused him of threatening to leak a intercourse tape of her.
“Judge Scheindlin exceeded her bounds and usurped jurisdiction on issues over which she lacked the power to decide,” Frey’s lawyer’s claimed in a January submitting in search of to vacate her determination and likewise accusing her of “often screaming at defense counsel for inconsequential acts.”
A transcript included in court docket data exhibits Scheindlin chastising Frey’s attorneys for failing to offer proof forward of time and for dragging out proceedings.
“Ms. Scheindlin had no authority to invalidate the RPI’s consent to make the I Slept with Joey Ramone movie,” spokesman Owen Stone mentioned.
Scheindlin didn’t return a request for remark.
