Toymaker MGA Entertainment Inc. can appeal to the Ninth Circuit seeking a ruling that a judge rather than jury should decide punitive damages in the fourth trial over publicity rights claims brought by former teen pop group OMG Girlz, a federal judge ruled.
Whether OMG Girlz is entitled to a jury is a disputable legal question better answered now than after trial, Judge James V. Selna ruled in an order issued Thursday in the US District Court for the Central District of California. He awarded the new trial in July after nixing the $53.6 million portion of the $71 million ...