State Supreme Court sets date for Blasi

October 03, 2007 The California Supreme Court has set a Nov. 6 date to hear oral arguments in the closely watched management commissions case between Marathon Entertainment and its former client, actress Rosa Blasi. In June 2006, an appeals court in Los Angeles ordered the case back to the state labor commissioner to decide whether the alleged unlicensed procurement of employment for Blasi by former manager Rick Siegel should be severed from the rest of her contract. Blasi, who starred in Lifetime's "Strong Medicine," countered by alleging Marathon acted as an unlicensed talent agent -- a violation of the Talent Agencies Act, which would void the contract altogether under recent labor commission rulings.

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