Judge Tosses Suit Against Kardashian Sisters over Withdrawn Credit Card Endorsement
A California judge has ruled for the Kardashian sisters in a suit that contended they breached a contract to endorse a prepaid debit card.
Judge Jeffrey Hamilton ruled for sisters Kim, Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian last week, report the Hollywood Reporter’s Hollywood Esq., the Associated Press and the Fresno Bee.
The sisters had backed out of a deal to promote the card in the press and on social networking websites after the card was criticized for excessive fees. The suit by Revenue Resource Group sought $75 million to cover losses it expected to incur because of the broken contract.
Hamilton ruled on an anti-SLAPP motion filed by lawyers for the Kardashians that contended they had a First Amendment right to criticize the credit card and could not be sued for voicing their concerns. Hamilton also said news coverage of the card’s high fees caused the company’s problems, rather than the Kardashian sisters. One state attorney general had called the card fees “predatory.”
Revenue Resource Group “has not met its burden to show that it is likely to prevail,” Hamilton wrote, “because it has not addressed the claim the contract involved an unlawful/fraudulent product or how damages could be proven even had the defendants remained silent, given the record before the court of apparently universal condemnation of the product’s profit making features.”
