TAA suit is a federal case

April 15, 2008 Marathon Entertainment owner Rick Siegel, who has led the charge against the TAA rules for the past several years, filed suit Tuesday against state Attorney General Jerry Brown, claiming that it is unconstitutional to enforce the TAA on talent managers. Siegel, who is representing himself, claims that the state's courts and labor commission have enforced "tortuous, speculative interpretation of legislative intention, disturbing property without the required notice of either the forbidden conduct or of what penalties can be extracted when violations are found." In February, the state Supreme Court ruled that the labor commissioner, if finding a manager has acted as an unlicensed talent agent, can sever those violations from the contract, rather than void the contract in its entirety.

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