A Los Angeles Superior Courtroom choose has dominated that former Nickelodeon producer Dan Schneider can proceed together with his defamation lawsuit over claims made in Investigation Discovery’s Quiet On Set restricted sequence.
Schneider filed the lawsuit towards Warner Bros Discovery, Maxine Productions, Sony Footage and Quiet on Set producers Mary Robertson and Emma Schwartz of defamation after the sequence premiered in March 2024.
Within the Nov. 22 ruling, Choose Ashfaq G. Chowdhury denied a bid by WBD and Maxine Productions to have the lawsuit thrown out. “That is manifestly not a case introduced by Schneider on frivolous grounds, merely to harass defendants,” the courtroom ruling learn. “He’s suing defendants a couple of documentary they made about him, that focuses on his actions, and, which an affordable viewer would possibly conclude makes damning implications about his conduct.”
Chowdhury agreed with Schneider and his attorneys “that defamation may be implied, that the trailer and documentary state or indicate Schneider sexually abused youngsters who labored on his present and that Schneider was a baby sexual abuser.”
Within the lawsuit, Schneider referred to as the sequence a “hit job” that destroyed his “legacy and fame.” The restricted sequence that was a rankings boon for ID revealed how two baby sexual abusers did work on his exhibits — dialogue coach Brian Peck and former manufacturing assistant Jason Helpful — however Schneider claims within the go well with that he had “no information of their abuse, was not complicit of their abuse.”
Schneider launched the assertion beneath after submitting the lawsuit in March that seeks unspecified damages:
“Lately the docuseries Quiet on Set highlighted errors I made and poor judgment I exhibited throughout my time at Nickelodeon, most of which occurred many years in the past throughout my early profession as a producer, engaged on exhibits for Tollin/Robbins Productions. There isn’t a doubt that I used to be typically a nasty chief. I’m sincerely apologetic and regretful for that conduct, and I’ll proceed to take accountability for it.”
