Ed Asner's SAG-AFTRA Lawsuit Dismissed

A judge says the case isn't ripe yet because the parties haven't finished examining records kept by SAG-AFTRA over levies and residuals. A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Ed Asner and others over alleged improprieties in SAG-AFTRA’s foreign levies and residuals programs. The legal action was filed in May and challenges whether the unions incompetently ran their foreign royalty system in a manner designed to improperly funnel money into the union's general fund. The plaintiffs ...