Updated Thursday 1pm:
Bill Richert, the lead plaintiff in the class action against the Writers Guild, writes to say that indeed, TheWrap’s publication of Mial’s testimony played a role in Tuesday’s settlement.
"Your publishing the Teri Mial testimony scoop in thewrap definitely helped move the settlement forward, and served as a wake up call to waffling WGA board members, in this Lead Plaintiff’s opinion, and I think in the opinion of my lawyers, who discussed your publishing the whole deposition in the courtroom, although what is said in these mediations is court-ordered confidential."
Earlier:
The WGA quietly settled a class action lawsuit over unpaid foreign levies this week, barely a week after WaxWord published the full deposition of whistleblower Terri Mial describing how she was instructed to ignore checks written to writers, and shredded the related lists.