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Consulting and Retainer Agreements/Suit for Payment. The U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada granted summary judgment in part for Nevada-based entertainment attorney John Mason on his claim of breach of legal-services agreements by a film-production company. Mason v. Artwork Pictures LLC, 3:03-cv-00188-LRH (VPC). Florida-based Artworks Pictures had hired Mason as consulting counsel for the production of the movie 'Bolivar the Liberator' and for 36 months as counsel on other legal issues. In 2003, Mason filed suit in Nevada federal court against Artworks and its president Edgard Meinhardt-Iturbe to collect $1,050,019 Mason claimed he was still owed under the agreements.
When Mason filed for a summary-judgment ruling that the defendants breached the counsel agreements, Meinhardt-Iturbe moved for additional time to respond. But the district court noted that 'approximately six months have passed since Defendant's last filing and Defendant has yet to file a formal opposition to Plaintiff's motion. Further, despite Defendant's protestations concerning his ability to receive documents, there is no evidence presented that service was improper or failed to occur in regard to any of the documents in this matter. Rather, Defendant merely contends that it takes a good while for him to receive the documents. The court, therefore, finds no grounds upon which a further extension would be warranted and turns to determining whether summary judgment is appropriate.'
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