Former Iatse Sound Local 695 business agent Jim Osburn is taking his fight against Iatse president Matt Loeb all the way to the Supreme Court, accusing Loeb of “stifling dissent” through “dictatorial tactics.” Loeb placed the Sound Local into trusteeship in February 2014 and removed Osburn from office just weeks after Osburn had been re-elected to a post he’d held on and off for nearly 30 years.
Osburn’s 42-page petition for a writ of certiorari (read it here), written by his attorney Sunny Wise, asks the high court to decide “whether stifling robust dissent without a true indicia of due process is tolerable when an International President cleverly imposes and quickly lifts a trusteeship after permanently removing only dissenting leaders from office.”
Two of the dissenters were Osburn and his longtime partner, Elizabeth Alvarez, the local’s former recording secretary, who also is a petitioner in the case.
Osburn’s blistering...
Osburn’s 42-page petition for a writ of certiorari (read it here), written by his attorney Sunny Wise, asks the high court to decide “whether stifling robust dissent without a true indicia of due process is tolerable when an International President cleverly imposes and quickly lifts a trusteeship after permanently removing only dissenting leaders from office.”
Two of the dissenters were Osburn and his longtime partner, Elizabeth Alvarez, the local’s former recording secretary, who also is a petitioner in the case.
Osburn’s blistering...
- 2/7/2019
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
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